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.
BETTE MIDLERIn a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.
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The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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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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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.
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I 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.
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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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If they [at the audition] don’t like the way you sound they won’t buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.
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It’s important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish – and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can’t accomplish.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn’t want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought,
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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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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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