Bette Midler Country Quotations

before one actually visits them, everyone tends to think of their favorite countries as one grand Disneyland filled with national monuments and historical treasures conveniently laid out for easy viewing, when what they really are filled with, of course, is people going to work, laundromats and places to buy rat poison.

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

[On Denmark:] ... that little country of cottage cheese and courage ...