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Shirley Jones: Well, television is...

Shirley Jones: Well, television is...

Well, television is what it is. Let's face it. I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody...

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Ma Rainey: My audience wants...

Ma Rainey: My audience wants...

My audience wants to see me beautifully gowned, and I have spared no expense or pains . . . For I feel that the best...

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Hazel Scott: Who ever walked...

Hazel Scott: Who ever walked...

Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to...

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Ruby Dee: The kind of...

Ruby Dee: The kind of...

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within -- strength, courage,...

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Brigitte Bardot: It is better...

Brigitte Bardot: It is better...

It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

Source: The...

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Whoopi Goldberg: I fear waking...

Whoopi Goldberg: I fear waking...

I fear waking up one morning and finding out it was all for nothing. We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the...

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Marilu Henner: Wherever my career...

Marilu Henner: Wherever my career...

Wherever my career takes me, I know I'll love getting there, because ever since I was 2 1/2 years old, I knew that...

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Paula Gunn Allen: We are the...

Paula Gunn Allen: We are the...

We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian...

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Bette Davis: I am doomed...

Bette Davis: I am doomed...

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The...

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Shelley Winters: I did a...

Shelley Winters: I did a...

I did a picture in England one winter and it was so cold I almost got married.

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Loretta Swit: It wasn't so...

Loretta Swit: It wasn't so...

It wasn't so much that I was all alone on stage, but it was the realization of how much you need the response ... you...

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Meryl Streep: It is well...

Meryl Streep: It is well...

It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.

Source: From a...

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Donna Reed: Robert E. Lee...

Donna Reed: Robert E. Lee...

Robert E. Lee Prewitt. Isn't that a silly old name.

Source: Reed to Kerr as their...

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Billie Holiday: No two people...

Billie Holiday: No two people...

No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

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Lena Horne: It's not the...

Lena Horne: It's not the...

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Source: In The...

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Dinah Shore: Bing Crosby sings...

Dinah Shore: Bing Crosby sings...

Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.

Source: In...

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Pat Nixon: I would feel...

Pat Nixon: I would feel...

I would feel sorry for her if she did.

Source: On whether she would want her...

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Anna Jameson: The true purpose...

Anna Jameson: The true purpose...

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to...

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher: One of the...

Dorothy Canfield Fisher: One of the...

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being...

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Rebecca West: The trouble with...

Rebecca West: The trouble with...

The trouble with man is twofold. He cannot learn the truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too...

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