The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
BETTE MIDLERThe [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.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you’re bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it’s going to make you miserable?
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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.
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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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Unfortunately, every time there’s a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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I always wanted to be a performer, I didn’t know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
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If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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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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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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