When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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 believe that Judy Garland’s artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: ‘oh, she brought so much of her life to her music’, I don’t really believe that. I believe that she didn’t have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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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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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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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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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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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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If someone were to say seriously, “I’m divine,” she’d have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying “I’m God.” But because I’m funny about it, they haven’t locked me up yet. And I don’t give myself airs, either.
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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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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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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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