We are all part of the ecosystem.
BETTE MIDLERThe 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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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
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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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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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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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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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I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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I have a ball – and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That’s my core business, and that’s where I’ll always return.
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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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Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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