There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
BETTE MIDLERMarriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn’t want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought,
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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