When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
BETTE MIDLERI 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 sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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I’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’
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Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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I’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
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I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, “If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it.”
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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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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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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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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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