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Kathe Kollwitz: Genius can probably...

Kathe Kollwitz: Genius can probably...

Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count...

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Edith Head: Your dresses should...

Edith Head: Your dresses should...

Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a...

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Berenice Abbott: Photography helps people...

Berenice Abbott: Photography helps people...

Photography helps people to see.

Source: In Berenice Abbott: An American Matter,...

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Diane Arbus: My favorite thing...

Diane Arbus: My favorite thing...

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

Source: In Diane Arbus: An...

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Bernice Fitz-Gibbon: Creativity varies inversely...

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon: Creativity varies inversely...

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

Source:...

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Kathy Ireland: I know that...

Kathy Ireland: I know that...

I know that I've been blessed in many ways, and I was fortunate enough to travel the world and meet a lot of...

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Judith Jamison: Once you've danced,...

Judith Jamison: Once you've danced,...

Once you've danced, you always dance. You can't deny the gifts that God sends your way.

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Martha Graham: The past is...

Martha Graham: The past is...

The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or...

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Jeanne Moreau: Age does not...

Jeanne Moreau: Age does not...

Age does not protect you from love, but love, to some extent, protects you from age.

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Elizabeth Taylor: Success is a...

Elizabeth Taylor: Success is a...

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.

Source: ABC, 6...

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Mrs Patrick Campbell: It doesn't matter...

Mrs Patrick Campbell: It doesn't matter...

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the...

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Meryl Streep: Don't let your...

Meryl Streep: Don't let your...

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth -- don't let...

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Marie Dressler: In order to...

Marie Dressler: In order to...

In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves.

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Vera-Ellen: Well, you're not...

Vera-Ellen: Well, you're not...

Well, you're not exactly Superman, but you're awfully available.

Source: On...

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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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Jane Fonda: It's never too...

Jane Fonda: It's never too...

It's never too late -- never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

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Liza Minnelli: Whenever we were...

Liza Minnelli: Whenever we were...

Whenever we were on a plane, we had a family.

Source: On life with her mother Judy...

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Beatrice Lillie: [R]eaction and laughter...

Beatrice Lillie: [R]eaction and laughter...

[R]eaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more inclined to forget its...

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Hazel Scott: I have always...

Hazel Scott: I have always...

I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused...

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Dinah Shore: The best money...

Dinah Shore: The best money...

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything...

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