"I have a child and I've made a few people happy. That is all."
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"Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid gloves, mentally and physically"
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"Sex is much better with a woman, but then one can't live with a woman."
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"Friendship is a precious gift that can't be bought or sold. It's value is greater than mountains made of gold. If you shall ask God for a gift be thankful if he sends not diamonds pearls or riches but the love and trust of friends. It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
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"The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong."
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"[On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions."
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"Lover's words: “How beautiful you are, now that you love me.”"
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"one should be afraid of life, not of death."
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"There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing."
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"He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting."
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"The Germans and I no longer speak the same language."
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"A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television."
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"What remains is solitude."
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"If there is a supreme being, he's crazy."
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"There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them."
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"Every human being is in need of talking to somebody. In this country nobody has time. It seems that talking to a friend has gone out of style. Now you have to pay money to go to an analyst."
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"Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs."
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"It's the friend you call up at four o'clock in the morning that really matters."
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"A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma."
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"Morocco: Looks better in films."
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