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!
BETTE MIDLERSometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that’s why I’m on TV. I wasn’t going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place – I’ve always done that.
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I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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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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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn’t want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought,
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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 bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that’s why I’m on TV. I wasn’t going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place – I’ve always done that.
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The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment.
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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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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’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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