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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.

Bette Midler

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Bette Midler
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: December 1
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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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Men's brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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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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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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I've always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I'm even sanguine about that.
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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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For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating - and then only by waiters.
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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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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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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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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
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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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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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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'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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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!
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