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I never know how much of what I say is true.

Bette Midler

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Bette Midler
Age: 78
Born: 1945
Born: December 1
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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.
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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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'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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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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Twenty-seven people sang 'Wind Beneath My Wings' before I got around to it. A lot of people saw the movie that I sang it in, Beaches, and what they came away with was that song. They turned to their loved ones and said, 'You know, you are the wind beneath my wings!' The song expressed how they felt in a way a simple 'I love you' would not have.
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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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If they [at the audition] don't like the way you sound they won't buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.
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When it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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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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Do I understand this right? I'm being marked down?
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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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I don't like violence. I get sick from violence. Do you think people are excited by violence?
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I come from an overly confident place. But I'm overconfident because of feelings of inferiority.
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I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.
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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. That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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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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