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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 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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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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A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I've chosen not to be.
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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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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world. That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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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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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.
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I'm looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work - juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
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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 would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening... that's the art.
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When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.
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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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Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?
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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've always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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I always wanted to be a performer, I didn't know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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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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