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Charlotte Bronte: Life is so...

Charlotte Bronte: Life is so...

Life is so constructed that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

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Elayne Boosler: To listen to...

Elayne Boosler: To listen to...

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Reba McEntire: . . ....

Reba McEntire: . . ....

. . . we got our lungs from Daddy, and we exercised them early and often during those years up in the hills gathering...

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Nina Simone: It's time to...

Nina Simone: It's time to...

It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can...

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Marianne Moore: A writer is...

Marianne Moore: A writer is...

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

Source:...

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Pearl Bailey: We must change...

Pearl Bailey: We must change...

We must change in order to survive.

Source: Hurry Up American and Split,...

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Pearl Bailey: Children, you must...

Pearl Bailey: Children, you must...

Children, you must remember something. A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A...

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Mary Todd Lincoln: My evil genius...

Mary Todd Lincoln: My evil genius...

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

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Mae West: I only like...

Mae West: I only like...

I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Marilyn Monroe: I don't mind...

Marilyn Monroe: I don't mind...

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

Source: The...

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Lauren Bacall: I'm not the...

Lauren Bacall: I'm not the...

I'm not the public.

Source: On being told that a store was not open to the...

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Lillian Gish: The stage was...

Lillian Gish: The stage was...

The stage was our school, our home, our life.

Source: Describing her and her sister...

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Marilu Henner: An umeboshi plum...

Marilu Henner: An umeboshi plum...

An umeboshi plum is a little Japensese salt plum. The best thing for motion sickness is to take one of these plums . ....

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Helen Gahagan Douglas: Character isn't inherited....

Helen Gahagan Douglas: Character isn't inherited....

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by...

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Lynn Fontanne: We can be...

Lynn Fontanne: We can be...

We can be bought, but we can't be bored.

Source: On offers from Hollywood,...

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Michelle Pfeiffer: When you're young...

Michelle Pfeiffer: When you're young...

When you're young and have a dream, it's pretty simplistic. You don't think about or have any way of knowing...

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Mrs Patrick Campbell: Wedlock - the...

Mrs Patrick Campbell: Wedlock - the...

Wedlock - the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the...

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Mary Kay Ash: Listen long enough...

Mary Kay Ash: Listen long enough...

Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution.

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Est?e Lauder: Look for a...

Est?e Lauder: Look for a...

Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

Source: Advice on choosing a spouse, in New...

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Linda Ellerbee: How is it...

Linda Ellerbee: How is it...

How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew,...

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