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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.

Bette Midler

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Bette Midler
Age: 78
Born: 1945
Born: December 1
Actor
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Singer-Songwriter
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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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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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You can't just have a clean public space - you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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When you have a steady job you're more inspired to broaden yourself.
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I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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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 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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If someone were to say seriously, I'm divine, she'd have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying I'm God. But because I'm funny about it, they haven't locked me up yet. And I don't give myself airs, either.
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Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time - if not of my block - being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it's full of rage and real human drama.
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Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.
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I think the essence of humor has not changed. It's all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed. Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It's brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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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 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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If you're frightened, you're out of luck.
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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 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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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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