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Joanne Woodward: Intensity is so...

Joanne Woodward: Intensity is so...

Intensity is so much more becoming in the young.

Source: In The Last Word - A...

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Mae West: Don't marry a...

Mae West: Don't marry a...

Don't marry a man to reform him that's what reform schools are for.

Source: In An...

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Tallulah Bankhead: It's one of...

Tallulah Bankhead: It's one of...

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work --the night...

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Bette Davis: Without wonder and...

Bette Davis: Without wonder and...

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

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Brigitte Bardot: I leave before...

Brigitte Bardot: I leave before...

I leave before being left. I decide.

Source: In Newsweek, 5 Mar 1973.
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Barbara Stanwyck: Egotism -- usually...

Barbara Stanwyck: Egotism -- usually...

Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

Source: In The New Webster's...

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Deborah Kerr: Do you think...

Deborah Kerr: Do you think...

Do you think it will ever take the place of night baseball?

Source: In An Affair to...

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Minnie Maddern Fiske: Among the most...

Minnie Maddern Fiske: Among the most...

Among the most disheartening and dangerous of . . . advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest...

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Minnie Maddern Fiske: You must make...

Minnie Maddern Fiske: You must make...

You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of...

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Thelma Ritter: Nobody ever invented...

Thelma Ritter: Nobody ever invented...

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.

Source: Ritter Kelly when...

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Maggie Smith: Little girls, I...

Maggie Smith: Little girls, I...

Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the cr?me de la...

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Kirstie Alley: I don't think...

Kirstie Alley: I don't think...

I don't think that [children are] any more resilent than anyone else. They're just people with little...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Books succeed, and...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Books succeed, and...

Books succeed, and lives fail.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Elizabeth Coatsworth: The sunset caught...

Elizabeth Coatsworth: The sunset caught...

The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,
set the clouds
to one great roof of flame
above the...

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Amy Lowell: Youth condemns; maturity...

Amy Lowell: Youth condemns; maturity...

Youth condemns; maturity condones.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Gloria Swanson: I am big....

Gloria Swanson: I am big....

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

Source: As Norma Desmond, in Sunset...

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Diana Ross: I really, deeply...

Diana Ross: I really, deeply...

I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their...

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Mary Antin: A long past...

Mary Antin: A long past...

A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would...

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Mary Antin: The Wandering Jew...

Mary Antin: The Wandering Jew...

The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness. I am not afraid to live on and on, if only I do not have to remember too...

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Imelda Marcos: Life is not...

Imelda Marcos: Life is not...

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country,...

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