"I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete."
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"Life is the past, the present and the perhaps."
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"One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake."
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"If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull."
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"I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life."
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"Old age is no place for sissies."
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"Don't you hate people who drink white wine? I mean, my dear, every alcoholic in town is getting falling-down drunk on white wine. They think they aren't drunks because they only drink wine. Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies."
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"I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment."
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"Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
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"Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life."
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"The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with."
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"You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'"
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"One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think."
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"May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is -- and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal."
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"I wouldn't piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire."
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"I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business."
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"Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies."
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"I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed."
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"Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over."
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"It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her."
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