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I do look upon all of life as an episode - which is why the people around me are probably on guard!

Bette Midler

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Bette Midler
Age: 78
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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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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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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Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love's not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true ...In this life I was loved by you.
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It's a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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