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I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.
Bette Midler
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Bette Midler
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: December 1
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Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love's not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true ...In this life I was loved by you.
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When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They'd never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior. A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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People put barriers up in your path, and one of those barriers is age. They tell you, You're too old. You don't photograph so well anymore. I know I don't photograph so well anymore, so what can I do? I can do something different, where it doesn't matter as much how I look.
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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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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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Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?
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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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My whole life had been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that lets you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first [compost] heap.
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I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses' plastic surgery.
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I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.
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When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I'd set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds. Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!
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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.
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Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn't take anything drastic. You needn't be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
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Do I understand this right? I'm being marked down?
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You can't just have a clean public space - you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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I do look upon all of life as an episode - which is why the people around me are probably on guard!
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