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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

Bette Midler

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Bette Midler
Age: 78
Born: 1945
Born: December 1
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Producer
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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I've always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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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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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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I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.
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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn't want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought, Maybe I'll get better and eventually please the person who wrote about my singing. But then I thought, I probably will never please this person. I should just do what pleases me.
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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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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Do I understand this right? I'm being marked down?
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before one actually visits them, everyone tends to think of their favorite countries as one grand Disneyland filled with national monuments and historical treasures conveniently laid out for easy viewing, when what they really are filled with, of course, is people going to work, laundromats and places to buy rat poison.
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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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