"Life is full of censorship. I cant spit in your eye."
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"I thought, can you think of any really good reason not to do it? Except that, oh, I'm so shy, or oh, my private life, or oh, are they going to find out how boring I am? You know? And that was the only reason now, in a sense, not to do television. Because it certainly is a method of expression, which has to be accepted as these things come along."
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"I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference."
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"Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them."
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"In some ways I've lived my life like a man, made my own decisions, etc. I've been as terrified as the next person, but you've got to keep going."
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"I won't go to a restaurant to eat with friends, always join them afterwards for coffee. In company I always get over enthusiastic, and this leads to indigestion."
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"I remember as a child going around with "Votes For Women" balloons. I learnt early what it is to be snubbed for a good cause."
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"My father, a surgeon and urologist, studied sex professionally all his life. Before he died at 82, he told me he hadn't come to any conclusions about it at all."
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"I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward to heaven."
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"If you have fame, you never feel that you have fame, if you have the brains of a flea. Because fame is something that's over back of you. It ain't ahead.... Not ahead at all. I mean, if you've done it that's great, but "what are you going to do now?" is the only thing that matters."
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"Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn't have to talk to you."
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"The lack of work destroys people."
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"Time is the stuff of which life is made."
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"A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same -- scandal."
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"I don't feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it's here. And I think anything good that you're going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world."
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"It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot."
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"Now how can anybody look at that and not believe in God? I mean, how can anybody look at this and not believe there is some higher power, some divine force at work in the universe greater than Man, some god that created it, that created all this, that created us?"
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"It's either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don't know what it is, but whatever it is, I've got it."
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"I've always thought men and women are not too well suited to each other. It's inevitable that they should come together, but, again, how well suited are they to live together in the same house?"
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"I am a total me, me, Me person."
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