"I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived."
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"You know what nostalgia is, don't you? It's basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain."
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"It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies."
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"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."
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"There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen."
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"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else."
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"Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life."
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"The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms."
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"There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch."
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"I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay."
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"Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success."
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"The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being."
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"Your luck is how you treat people."
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"Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent."
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"You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor."
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"It's a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It's all very sad but it's much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays."
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"Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up."
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"Home is where you go to when you've nowhere to go."
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"The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency."
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"One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career."
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