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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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Bette Midler
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: December 1
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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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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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Humor disarms people. They don't feel threatened.
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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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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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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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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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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you're playing somebody's mother - and there aren't even a lot of those roles!
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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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When it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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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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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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