If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
BETTE MIDLERIt’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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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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From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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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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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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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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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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I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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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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I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you’re bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it’s going to make you miserable?
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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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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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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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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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[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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