The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
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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I’m working my way toward divinity.
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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 can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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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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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 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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Total contentment is only for cows.
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I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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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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I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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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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