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 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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It’s a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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The [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.
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I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
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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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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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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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The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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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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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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Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I’ll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
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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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Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
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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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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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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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Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.
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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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There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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