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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
Bette Midler
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Bette Midler
Age: 78
Born: 1945
Born: December 1
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If you're frightened, you're out of luck.
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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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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I'm even sanguine about that.
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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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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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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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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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