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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;

Bette Midler

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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Age Birthday Funny Mind
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
That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
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Nominate Oscar Remember
Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
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Energy Music Performers
I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Drinking Drunk Perspective
I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Audience Enough Lucky
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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Else Growing Somewhere Thinking
[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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Helen Orchestra Singing
I’m working my way toward divinity.
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Divinity Quality Way
I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.
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Art Interested Not Perfect
Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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Earn Self Esteem Something
We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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Divine Myself Nerves
The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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Funny Jealousy Success
hen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
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Ask Glamorous Grave Think Yourself
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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Enough Foundation Great Lay
I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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Funny Humorous Memorable

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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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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