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I don't like violence. I get sick from violence. Do you think people are excited by violence?
Bette Midler
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Bette Midler
Age: 78
Born: 1945
Born: December 1
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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.
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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.
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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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I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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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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I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first. Lay a foundation - get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.
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I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.
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Twenty-seven people sang 'Wind Beneath My Wings' before I got around to it. A lot of people saw the movie that I sang it in, Beaches, and what they came away with was that song. They turned to their loved ones and said, 'You know, you are the wind beneath my wings!' The song expressed how they felt in a way a simple 'I love you' would not have.
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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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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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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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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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