It’s important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish – and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can’t accomplish.
BETTE MIDLERI married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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I’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
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I was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
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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 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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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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Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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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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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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