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Elsa Maxwell: The cocktail party...

Elsa Maxwell: The cocktail party...

The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil.

Source: In An...

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Lauren Bacall: You can't start...

Lauren Bacall: You can't start...

You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening...

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Whoopi Goldberg: I don't like...

Whoopi Goldberg: I don't like...

I don't like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in the car, but other than that,...

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Whoopi Goldberg: I'm fighting the...

Whoopi Goldberg: I'm fighting the...

I'm fighting the label of Black actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are...

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Lily Tomlin: The trouble with...

Lily Tomlin: The trouble with...

The trouble with the rat race is that if you win you're still a rat.

Source: In...

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Gilda Radner: I think dogs...

Gilda Radner: I think dogs...

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being...

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Phylicia Rashad: [Meditation] is the...

Phylicia Rashad: [Meditation] is the...

[Meditation] is the power that leads you to your own truth. Everybody needs to be free. The main thing meditation...

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Shelley Winters: Acting is like...

Shelley Winters: Acting is like...

Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they're...

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Jacqueline Bisset: The deeper interior...

Jacqueline Bisset: The deeper interior...

The deeper interior you have the more you have in your llibrary.

Source: Interview...

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Denise Levertov: The poem has...

Denise Levertov: The poem has...

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has kinetic force, it sets in...

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Edith Sitwell: I am patient...

Edith Sitwell: I am patient...

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Source: In...

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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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Marian Anderson: Fear is a...

Marian Anderson: Fear is a...

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Source: My Lord,...

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Bette Midler: The worst part...

Bette Midler: The worst part...

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

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Madonna: I wouldn't have...

Madonna: I wouldn't have...

I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel...

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Fanny Brice: I never liked...

Fanny Brice: I never liked...

I never liked the men I loved, and never loved the men I liked.

Source: In The...

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Mary Antin: A characteristic thing...

Mary Antin: A characteristic thing...

A characteristic thing about the aspiring immigrant is the fact that he is not content to progress alone. Solitary...

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Mary Stewart: I reached for...

Mary Stewart: I reached for...

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful...

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Judith Guest: He had led...

Judith Guest: He had led...

He had led off being a perfectionist when he discovered that not promptly kept appointments, not a house circumspectly...

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Eleanor H Porter: Hold up to...

Eleanor H Porter: Hold up to...

Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out . . . People radiate what is in their...

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