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Marilyn Horne: The thing to...

Marilyn Horne: The thing to...

The thing to do [for insomnia] is to get an opera score and read that. That will bore you to...

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Adelaide A Proctor: See how time...

Adelaide A Proctor: See how time...

See how time makes all grief decay.

Source: Life in Death, The Poems of Adelaide...

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Anna Letitia Barbauld: The dead of...

Anna Letitia Barbauld: The dead of...

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

Source: Poems, 1792.
-- Anna...

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Julie Andrews: Some people regard...

Julie Andrews: Some people regard...

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to...

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Phyllis Diller: Cleaning your house...

Phyllis Diller: Cleaning your house...

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops...

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Sophie Tucker: I've been rich...

Sophie Tucker: I've been rich...

I've been rich and I've been poor; Believe me, honey, rich is better.

Source: Some...

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Dinah Shore: Trouble is part...

Dinah Shore: Trouble is part...

Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you...

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Diana Ross: Instead of looking...

Diana Ross: Instead of looking...

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to...

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Christina Aguilera: Right now I'm...

Christina Aguilera: Right now I'm...

Right now I'm pretty single . . . . My career is my boyfriend.

Source: Interview...

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Millicent Fenwick: The curious fascination...

Millicent Fenwick: The curious fascination...

The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you...

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Imelda Marcos: If you know...

Imelda Marcos: If you know...

If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.

Source: On Sixty...

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Louise Erdrich: I was in...

Louise Erdrich: I was in...

I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.

Source: In...

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Zora Neale Hurston: Research is formalized...

Zora Neale Hurston: Research is formalized...

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Source:...

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Vita Sackville-West: There are no...

Vita Sackville-West: There are no...

There are no signposts in the sea.

Source: No Signposts in the Sea, 1961.
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Nathalie Sarraute: Television has lifted...

Nathalie Sarraute: Television has lifted...

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major...

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Anne Bradstreet: I am obnoxious...

Anne Bradstreet: I am obnoxious...

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue
Who says my hand a needle better fits,
A poet's pen all scorn I should...

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Sarah Bernhardt: To be a...

Sarah Bernhardt: To be a...

To be a good actor . . . it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each...

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Helen Hayes: Every human being...

Helen Hayes: Every human being...

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He was born with the tragedy that...

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Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood is a...

Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood is a...

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a 1000 dollars for a kiss and 50 cents for your...

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Barbara Stanwyck: There is a...

Barbara Stanwyck: There is a...

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

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