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Lynn Fontanne: We can be...

Lynn Fontanne: We can be...

We can be bought, but we can't be bored.

Source: On offers from Hollywood,...

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Shelley Long: If you don't...

Shelley Long: If you don't...

If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only...

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Michelle Pfeiffer: When you're young...

Michelle Pfeiffer: When you're young...

When you're young and have a dream, it's pretty simplistic. You don't think about or have any way of knowing...

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Eleonora Duse: Interpretation is the...

Eleonora Duse: Interpretation is the...

Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow -- that great...

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Kim Cattrall: If you stick...

Kim Cattrall: If you stick...

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of...

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Joanne Woodward: There can be...

Joanne Woodward: There can be...

There can be no one best way of organizing a business.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Sharon Stone: A lot of...

Sharon Stone: A lot of...

A lot of people think that fame is the Band-Aid that cures their ills. I'm no kid, and I knew long before I got famous...

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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 theater that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night...

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Raquel Welch: You can't fake...

Raquel Welch: You can't fake...

You can't fake listening. It shows.

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

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Sara Teasdale: It is my...

Sara Teasdale: It is my...

It is my heart that makes my songs, not I.

Source: What Do I Care?, Flame and...

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Nikki Giovanni: It is not...

Nikki Giovanni: It is not...

It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

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Louise Erdrich: His thoughts swam...

Louise Erdrich: His thoughts swam...

His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own...

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Louise Erdrich: I think a...

Louise Erdrich: I think a...

I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to draw these scraps of experience or conversation or memory to it....

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Louise Erdrich: It was enough...

Louise Erdrich: It was enough...

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations...

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Lorraine Hansberry: There is always...

Lorraine Hansberry: There is always...

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned...

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Frances Watkins Harper: Apparent failure may...

Frances Watkins Harper: Apparent failure may...

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Reading is important...

Gwendolyn Brooks: Reading is important...

Reading is important -- read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

Source:...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: As you get...

Gwendolyn Brooks: As you get...

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet...

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Denise Levertov: One of the...

Denise Levertov: One of the...

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as...

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Emily Dickinson: Find ecstasy in...

Emily Dickinson: Find ecstasy in...

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Source: From Journey...

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