For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
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.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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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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It’s a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
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When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
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It’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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I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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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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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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I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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