Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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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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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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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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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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The [film] business is run by men, and they’re basically interested in their own species, and they’re not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close – a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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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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