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Jimmy Durante: Be awfully nice...

Jimmy Durante: Be awfully nice...

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

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Jeff Foxworthy: Changing a diaper...

Jeff Foxworthy: Changing a diaper...

Changing a diaper is a lot like getting a present from your grandmother -- you're not sure what you've got but you're...

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Steven Spielberg: Only a generation...

Steven Spielberg: Only a generation...

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

Source: In The...

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Robert Mitchum: I kept the...

Robert Mitchum: I kept the...

I kept the same suit for six years and the same dialogue. They just changed the title of the picture and the leading...

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Derek Jarman: The preserve of...

Derek Jarman: The preserve of...

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or. . . delusion.

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Mahalia Jackson: God can make...

Mahalia Jackson: God can make...

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.

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Mahalia Jackson: It is easy...

Mahalia Jackson: It is easy...

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing -- that's the...

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Robert Orben: If you can...

Robert Orben: If you can...

If you can laugh together, you can work together.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Robert Orben: If those scientists...

Robert Orben: If those scientists...

If those scientists are so smart, why do they all count backward?

Source:
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Ella Fitzgerald: I stole everything...

Ella Fitzgerald: I stole everything...

I stole everything that I heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.

Source: In...

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Betty Carter: After me there...

Betty Carter: After me there...

After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my...

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Josephine Baker: . . ....

Josephine Baker: . . ....

. . . I improvised, crazed by the music. . . . Even my teeth and eyes burned with fever. Each time I leaped I seemed...

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Nina Simone: Music is a...

Nina Simone: Music is a...

Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.

Source:...

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Katharine Hepburn: Life can be...

Katharine Hepburn: Life can be...

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly...

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Brigitte Bardot: If we don't...

Brigitte Bardot: If we don't...

If we don't get an answer, we will, strengthened by the support we receive, try to overthrow the...

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Jeanne Moreau: Acting deals with...

Jeanne Moreau: Acting deals with...

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he...

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Elizabeth Taylor: Success is a...

Elizabeth Taylor: Success is a...

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.

Source: ABC, 6...

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Barbara Stanwyck: There is a...

Barbara Stanwyck: There is a...

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

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Minnie Maddern Fiske: You must make...

Minnie Maddern Fiske: You must make...

You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of...

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Shelley Long: I'm not as...

Shelley Long: I'm not as...

I'm not as klutzy as I used to be . . . . I've had visual therapy and all kinds of things to help, but I still wrap my...

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