I don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.
BETTE MIDLERMy idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
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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 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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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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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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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
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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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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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Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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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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