I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
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The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years.
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I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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I haven’t left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we’re screwed!
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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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My daughter very independent. But if she’s upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She’s great – a real tough cookie.
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Lay a foundation – get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.
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You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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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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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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