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Julia Roberts: If all you...

Julia Roberts: If all you...

If all you have to offer is a look that is suppose to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a...

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Marie Dressler: There is a...

Marie Dressler: There is a...

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. ...

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Geraldine Chaplin: It's the change...

Geraldine Chaplin: It's the change...

It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that...

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Jane Seymour: Live each day...

Jane Seymour: Live each day...

Live each day the fullest you can, not guaranteeing there'll be a tomorrow, not dwelling endlessly on...

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Ntozake Shange: Where there is...

Ntozake Shange: Where there is...

Where there is woman there is magic.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Beah Richards: Having grown up...

Beah Richards: Having grown up...

Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: All love that...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: All love that...

All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.


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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: The man who...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: The man who...

The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and...

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Gloria Swanson: All creative people...

Gloria Swanson: All creative people...

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

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Gloria Vanderbilt: . . ....

Gloria Vanderbilt: . . ....

. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles,...

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Grandma Moses: What a strange...

Grandma Moses: What a strange...

What a strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, the other forward; one is of today, the other of...

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Sarah Josepha Hale: There is no...

Sarah Josepha Hale: There is no...

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of...

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Louise A Bogan: I hope that...

Louise A Bogan: I hope that...

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling about.

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Margot Asquith: The first element...

Margot Asquith: The first element...

The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is...

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Agatha Christie: The popular idea...

Agatha Christie: The popular idea...

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of...

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Agatha Christie: I've always believed...

Agatha Christie: I've always believed...

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each...

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Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: Irony is the...

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: Irony is the...

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Nora Ephron: We have lived...

Nora Ephron: We have lived...

We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry martini, and now...

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Mary Webb: The more anybody...

Mary Webb: The more anybody...

The more anybody wants a thing, the more they do think others want it.

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Alexandra Ripley: [The publishers] wanted...

Alexandra Ripley: [The publishers] wanted...

[The publishers] wanted some kind of book that lands on the best-seller list again and again. They didn't understand...

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