Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
BETTE MIDLERThe only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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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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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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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years.
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While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking – to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
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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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I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn’t want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought,
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You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.
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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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Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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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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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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