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.
BETTE MIDLERHere 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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My daughter very independent. But if she’s upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She’s great – a real tough cookie.
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I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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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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When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn’t even doing the singing. I’m a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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I believe that Judy Garland’s artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: ‘oh, she brought so much of her life to her music’, I don’t really believe that. I believe that she didn’t have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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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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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.
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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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