If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
BETTE MIDLERMy mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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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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Total contentment is only for cows.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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I think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
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The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
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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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When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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The [film] business is run by men, and they’re basically interested in their own species, and they’re not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
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You can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking – to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, “If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it.”
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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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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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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They’d never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior.
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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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