Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
BETTE MIDLERI have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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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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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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I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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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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Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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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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The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore – she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, “That’s who I should grow up to be.” It’s odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted;
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Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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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 wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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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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