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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.

Bette Midler

If someone were to say seriously, “I’m divine,” she’d have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying “I’m God.” But because I’m funny about it, they haven’t locked me up yet. And I don’t give myself airs, either.
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Air Giving People
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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People Space Use
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Autumn Spring Summer
You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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Bread Sliced Thinking
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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Born Entertaining Way
Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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Down Market Money
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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Believe Mean Moving
My daughter very independent. But if she’s upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She’s great – a real tough cookie.
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Daughter Independent Real
I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Audience Enough Lucky
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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Careers People Want
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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Dream Fuzzy
GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Distance God Watching
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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Clothes Heart People
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Cleaning Ideas Superwoman
From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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Age Ran Treadmill
There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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Time Trying World

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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