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BETTE MIDLERAfter thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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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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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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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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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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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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There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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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.
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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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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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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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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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