"I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other's ears off."
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"I've come through things that would have felled an ox. That fills me with optimism, not just for myself but for our particular species."
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"I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get."
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"Marriage is a great institution."
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"I have a woman's body and a child's emotions."
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"It's not the having, it's the getting."
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"I do enjoy life, I really do. Especially if I wake up the next day."
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"I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me."
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"I mean, how many young women get a set of rubies just for doing something wholesome like swimming laps? Or win a diamond ring at Ping-Pong with their husband... ? Well, I did, and for all of these memories and the people in my life I feel blessed."
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"I think I ended up being the scarlet woman partly because of my rather puritannical upbringing and beliefs. I always chose to think I was in love and that love was synonymous with marriage."
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"Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream."
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"I've never thought of my jewelry as trophies. I'm here to take care of it and to love it, for we are only temporary custodians of beauty."
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"A strong film director does leave you to your devices. A strong director allows you to be free and you trust that he's there and he will tell you if you've gone too far. A strong director allows you to be much more experimental and take greater chances than a director who isn't secure within himself."
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"It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward."
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"I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife."
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"I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids."
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"I always wanted to have a fragrance, and I always wanted to be able to connect with people in ways other than through film."
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"[On Antony's death] Strange, there has never been... such a silence."
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"I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on."
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"Maggie the cat is alive. I'm alive."
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