"Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost."
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"Just a little sheep dip. Panacea for all stomach ailments."
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"The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood."
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"Men? Sure, I've known lots of them. But I never found one I liked well enough to marry. Besides, I've always been busy with my work. Marriage is a career in itself and to make a success of it you've got to keep working at it. So until I can give the."
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"It's not what you say, but how you say it!"
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"Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart. Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook."
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"A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay."
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"Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury."
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"I always did like a man in uniform. And that one fits you grand. Why don't you come up sometime and see me?"
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"Too many Broadway actors in motion pictures lost their grip on success--had a feeling that none of it had ever happened on that sun-drenched coast, that the coast itself did not exist, there was no California. It had dropped away like a hasty dream and nothing could ever have been like the things they thought they remembered."
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"I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs."
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"Sometimes it seems to me I've known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints."
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"Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt."
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"Tira: Whatever you're thinkin' you're wrong. I only like him like a brother. You ain't got nothin' to worry about. . . . Say listen you. A better dame than you once called me a liar and they had to sew her up in twelve different places. You're lucky I'm a little more refined than I used to be. And if you was as much a lady as I am, you'd get out of here before I get real sore. Alicia: You haven't a streak of decency in you. Tira: I don't show my good points to strangers. I'll trouble you to scram."
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"Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises."
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"The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ... Life elsewhere was real and slippery and struggled in the arms like a big fish dying in air."
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"When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?"
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"Pour him out of here!"
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"I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary."
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"men are not realists - only women are."
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