"Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both."
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"This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them."
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"Important people are much more interesting when they are drunk and seem much more like human beings."
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"Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere."
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"I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent."
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"Women who try to be equivalent with men need desire."
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"When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again."
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"As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing. You'd think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they're together."
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"The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know."
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"Happiness never becomes a habit."
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"Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right."
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"I've never dropped anyone I believed in."
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"I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else."
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"I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about."
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"One of the things I like best about men is they're a little vulnerable."
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"My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!"
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"If marriage were only bed, we could have made it."
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"I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes."
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"What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers."
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"Within crisis, are the seeds of opportunity."
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