I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.
BETTE MIDLEREveryone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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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 had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first.
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Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
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Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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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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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 sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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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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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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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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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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