You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
BETTE MIDLERIt’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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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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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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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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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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I don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.
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It’s important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish – and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can’t accomplish.
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If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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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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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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I’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
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A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
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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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