I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
BETTE MIDLERMarriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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If someone were to say seriously, “I’m divine,” she’d have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying “I’m God.” But because I’m funny about it, they haven’t locked me up yet. And I don’t give myself airs, either.
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Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I’ll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
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When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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Lay a foundation – get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.
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I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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I’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years.
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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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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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