It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
BETTE MIDLERA lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn’t take anything drastic. You needn’t be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace, it’s the voice of every man
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While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking – to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
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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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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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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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It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
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Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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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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