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Dorothy Parker: Outspoken by whom?...

Dorothy Parker: Outspoken by whom?...

Outspoken by whom?

Source: When told that she was very outspoken; attributed.
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Camille Paglia: The greatest honor...

Camille Paglia: The greatest honor...

The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with...

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Bessie Smith: I ain't good-lookin',...

Bessie Smith: I ain't good-lookin',...

I ain't good-lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child.

Source: In Words of Love, by...

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Gypsy Rose Lee: God will protect...

Gypsy Rose Lee: God will protect...

God will protect us, [my mother] often said to June and me. But to make sure, she would add, carry a heavy...

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Catherine Deneuve: Being an actor...

Catherine Deneuve: Being an actor...

Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself...

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Judy Collins: I have inspiration...

Judy Collins: I have inspiration...

I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live. I call them part of the joy of living, and they...

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: There are many...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: There are many...

There are many little ways to enlarge [your child's] world. Love of books is the best of...

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Maxine Kumin: With the poem,...

Maxine Kumin: With the poem,...

With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness...

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Denise Levertov: Images <br>split the...

Denise Levertov: Images
split the...

Images
split the truth
in fractions.


Source: A Sequence, in The Jacob's...

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Emily Dickinson: If I feel...

Emily Dickinson: If I feel...

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. Is there any other...

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Whoopi Goldberg: An actress can...

Whoopi Goldberg: An actress can...

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

Source: Letter...

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Francesca Annis: I don't really...

Francesca Annis: I don't really...

I don't really have an image of myself. Now, is that true? Well, maybe I do and it's different, which is why I get...

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Martha Graham: No artist is...

Martha Graham: No artist is...

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the...

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Nellie Melba: One of the...

Nellie Melba: One of the...

One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.

Source: In The...

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Margot Fonteyn: The one important...

Margot Fonteyn: The one important...

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking...

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Amy Vanderbilt: One face to...

Amy Vanderbilt: One face to...

One face to the world, another at home makes for misery.

Source: In The New...

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Audre Lorde: Who I am...

Audre Lorde: Who I am...

Who I am is what fulfills me and what fulfills the vision I have of a world.

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Joan Baez: It seems to...

Joan Baez: It seems to...

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words...

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Mary Pickford: Supposing you have...

Mary Pickford: Supposing you have...

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing...

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Jessye Norman: If you send...

Jessye Norman: If you send...

If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find...

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