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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: 79
Born: 1945
Born: December 1
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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've always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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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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I'm mad about God! That's why I'm divine.
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Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that's why I'm on TV. I wasn't going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place - I've always done that.
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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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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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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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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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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it's full of rage and real human drama.
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All these children [who did not have music and art classes at school] go out into the world without knowing that there is anything other than what they have. Of course, children do look at TV, but what does it give them?
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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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I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you're bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it's going to make you miserable?
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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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