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Humor disarms people. They don't feel threatened.
Bette Midler
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Bette Midler
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: December 1
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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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When you have a steady job you're more inspired to broaden yourself.
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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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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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Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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For some people, a park is the only place in their entire world where they can see something beautiful.
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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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People put barriers up in your path, and one of those barriers is age. They tell you, You're too old. You don't photograph so well anymore. I know I don't photograph so well anymore, so what can I do? I can do something different, where it doesn't matter as much how I look.
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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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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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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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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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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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Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn't even doing the singing. I'm a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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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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From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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