"It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people."
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"You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good."
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"There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne."
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"Getting old is not for sissies."
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"Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic."
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"You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation."
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"If everyone likes you, you're not doing it right."
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"A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else."
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"If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent."
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"My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose."
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"The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead."
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"I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year."
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"I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure."
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"There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going."
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"It's true we don't know what we've got until its gone, but we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime."
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"Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all."
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"You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get."
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"I want to die with my high heels on, still in action."
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"Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world."
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"Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime."
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