Bette Midler Quotes - Page 6

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• [On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

  Bette Midler

  Singing, Orchestra, Helen

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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?

  Bette Midler

  Art, Children, School

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• You can't just have a clean public space - you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.

  Bette Midler

  Space, People, Use

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.

  Bette Midler

  Soul, Devil, Chains

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• The [film] industry is an ecosystem that's sick.

  Bette Midler

  Movie, Ecosystems, Sick

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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.

  Bette Midler

  Children, Book, Other Worlds

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• Marriage is such hard work. And it's full of rage and real human drama.

  Bette Midler

  Real, Drama, Hard Work

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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

  People, Looks, Look Up

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• I've always said that people have unrealistic expectations.

  Bette Midler

  People, Expectations, Unrealistic Expectations

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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.

  Bette Midler

  Age, Treadmills, Ran

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• Hawaii doesn't smell like sex to me. It's the only place in the world that smells like that, but it's not sex, it's - freedom.

  Bette Midler

  World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I'm even sanguine about that.

  Bette Midler

  Way, Sanguine, Planets

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• Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!

  Bette Midler

  Cities, Soul, Wake Up

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 2001.

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• My daughter very independent. But if she's upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She's great - a real tough cookie.

  Bette Midler

  Daughter, Real, Independent

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• I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can't stop it.

  Bette Midler

  Upset

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For some people, a park is the only place in their entire world where they can see something beautiful.

  Bette Midler

  Beautiful, People, World

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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

  Song, Ideas, Voice

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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.

  Bette Midler

  Sleep, Media, Way

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• That's the Oscars for ya - you remember who was nominated, but you don't remember who won!

  Bette Midler

  Oscars, Remember

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• That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds. Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!

  Bette Midler

  Art, Children, Taken

  Source: www.oprah.com

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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?

  Bette Midler

  Years, Stories, Way

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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.

  Bette Midler

  Book, World, Saws

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren't alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump. Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don't. That's partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible - Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.

  Bette Midler

  Cities, People, Want

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• When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They'd never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior. A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.

  Bette Midler

  Drinking, People, Smoking

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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!

  Bette Midler

  Stars, Years, Different

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