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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.

Bette Midler

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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Book Country Horse
[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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Helen Orchestra Singing
I’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’
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Back Cold Country Cruel Glad
The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
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Careers People Want
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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Doors Ideas Stars
I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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Nature Love Spite
I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!
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Garbage Good Lot People Saw Way
If someone were to say seriously, “I’m divine,” she’d have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying “I’m God.” But because I’m funny about it, they haven’t locked me up yet. And I don’t give myself airs, either.
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Air Giving People
I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Expectations People Unrealistic
There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
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Media Sleep Way
Total contentment is only for cows.
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Contentment Cows Total
Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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Chain Devil Soul
If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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Anything Clothes Feels Right
If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Laugh Laughing Slave
The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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Birth Giving Virgins
Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Hard People Self Esteem Work

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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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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