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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.”

Bette Midler

Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there’s a seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes a rose.
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Snow Spring Winter
From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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Age Ran Treadmill
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake
[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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Princess Royalty Spite
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country
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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Fighting Race Years
If they [at the audition] don’t like the way you sound they won’t buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.
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Dresses Sound Way
I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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Lady Macbeth Pairs Shoes
I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Drinking Drunk Perspective
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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Careers People Want
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Jakhammer Poetry Rap
Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Light Love You See
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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Dream Fuzzy
I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Rocks Roll Sold Soul
I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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Memorable Women
All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it for one minute. He hasn’t been to one of my shows.
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Believe Gay Rumor

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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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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