I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first.
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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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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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There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
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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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A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
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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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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true …In this life I was loved by you.
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For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
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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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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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You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.
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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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