I’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
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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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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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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We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn’t even doing the singing. I’m a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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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 have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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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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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.
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