There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
BETTE MIDLERAs you age, feelings do diminish.
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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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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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The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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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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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there’s a seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes a rose.
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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They’d never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
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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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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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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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In 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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I think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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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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A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don’t. That’s partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible – Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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