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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: 78
Born: 1945
Born: December 1
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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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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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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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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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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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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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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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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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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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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 don't like violence. I get sick from violence. Do you think people are excited by violence?
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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When you have a steady job you're more inspired to broaden yourself.
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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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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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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.
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