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Lillian Gish: What you get...

Lillian Gish: What you get...

What you get is a living -- what you give is a life.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold,...

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Gilda Radner: While we have...

Gilda Radner: While we have...

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die -- whether it is our...

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Helen Gahagan Douglas: If one lets...

Helen Gahagan Douglas: If one lets...

If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged...

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Glenda Jackson: Acting is not...

Glenda Jackson: Acting is not...

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget...

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Thelma Ritter: If there's anything...

Thelma Ritter: If there's anything...

If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it.

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Maria Schell: I like Americans....

Maria Schell: I like Americans....

I like Americans. They always make an effort when they meet you. They want to be liked and to like you; it is always...

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Eleonora Duse: . . ....

Eleonora Duse: . . ....

. . . does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining...

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Kirstie Alley: I was a...

Kirstie Alley: I was a...

I was a Scientologist before I was an actress, and I've always felt people are not only content with whatever religion...

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Kirstie Alley: I'm happy when...

Kirstie Alley: I'm happy when...

I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 -- bowling balls. But, that's a good...

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Jane Seymour: Music has brought...

Jane Seymour: Music has brought...

Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't even hear the notes....

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Shirley Booth: I much prefer...

Shirley Booth: I much prefer...

I much prefer being a man. Women have to spend so much time pulling themselves together, and their shoes kill your...

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Marianne Moore: Poetry: Not til...

Marianne Moore: Poetry: Not til...

Poetry: Not til poets among us can be 'literalists of imagination' -- above insolence and triviality and can present...

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Gwendolyn Bennett: Oh, stir the...

Gwendolyn Bennett: Oh, stir the...

Oh, stir the lucid waters of thy sleep
And coin for me a tale
Of happy loves and gems and joyous limbs
And...

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Amy Lowell: Happiness, to some...

Amy Lowell: Happiness, to some...

Happiness, to some elation;
Is to others, mere stagnation.


Source: In The...

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Adrienne Rich: Re-vision -- the...

Adrienne Rich: Re-vision -- the...

Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction...

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Louise A Bogan: Life and death...

Louise A Bogan: Life and death...

Life and death occur, as they must, but they are all bound up with love and hatred, in the individual bosom, and it is...

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Christina Aguilera: I'm experimental by...

Christina Aguilera: I'm experimental by...

I'm experimental by nature . . . always exploring my creativity.

Source: Interview...

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Pat Nixon: I'll have to...

Pat Nixon: I'll have to...

I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the...

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Martha Washington: I very linearly...

Martha Washington: I very linearly...

I very linearly [sic] wish you would exert yourself so as to keep all your matters in order your self without...

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Rosalynn Carter: I had already...

Rosalynn Carter: I had already...

I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I...

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