I’m working my way toward divinity.
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 was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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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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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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Unfortunately, every time there’s a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
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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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There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
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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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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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If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment.
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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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