I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
BETTE MIDLEREveryone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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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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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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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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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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Unfortunately, every time there’s a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
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I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time – if not of my block – being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
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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 feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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