A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
BETTE MIDLERWe are all part of the ecosystem.
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If someone were to say seriously, “I’m divine,” she’d have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying “I’m God.” But because I’m funny about it, they haven’t locked me up yet. And I don’t give myself airs, either.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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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 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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It’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 love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close – a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
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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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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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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn’t take anything drastic. You needn’t be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
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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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