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.
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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I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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Lay a foundation – get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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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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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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I’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
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I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don’t. That’s partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible – Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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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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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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