I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
BETTE MIDLERWriting a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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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’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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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 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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I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, “If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it.”
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.
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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
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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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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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