I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
BETTE MIDLERI always wanted to be a performer, I didn’t know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
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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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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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I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
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I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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I’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
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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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Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that’s why I’m on TV. I wasn’t going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place – I’ve always done that.
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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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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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Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true …In this life I was loved by you.
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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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