I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
BETTE MIDLERWhen I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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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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I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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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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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore – she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, “That’s who I should grow up to be.” It’s odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted;
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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 have a ball – and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That’s my core business, and that’s where I’ll always return.
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Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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