If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
BETTE MIDLERFor days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.
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My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.
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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
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You can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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My daughter very independent. But if she’s upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She’s great – a real tough cookie.
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