I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
BETTE MIDLERI loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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When 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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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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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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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
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If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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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.
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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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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it for one minute. He hasn’t been to one of my shows.
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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