It’s a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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.
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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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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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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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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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