There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
BETTE MIDLERI’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn’t even doing the singing. I’m a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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For 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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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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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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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!
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[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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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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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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From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace, it’s the voice of every man
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I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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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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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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A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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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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I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
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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 think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
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I 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 don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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