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Sophia Loren: A woman's dress...

Sophia Loren: A woman's dress...

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the...

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Lauren Bacall: In Hollywood, an...

Lauren Bacall: In Hollywood, an...

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of...

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Lauren Bacall: The purity of...

Lauren Bacall: The purity of...

The purity of Jewish upbringing is the restrictions that one carries through life being a nice Jewish girl -- what a...

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Lillian Gish: What you get...

Lillian Gish: What you get...

What you get is a living -- what you give is a life.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold,...

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Carrie Fisher: You can't find...

Carrie Fisher: You can't find...

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so...

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Gilda Radner: I wanted a...

Gilda Radner: I wanted a...

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a...

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Carol Burnett: I have always...

Carol Burnett: I have always...

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really...

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Whoopi Goldberg: . . ....

Whoopi Goldberg: . . ....

. . . what I am is a humanist before anything -- before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my...

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Gilda Radner: The goal is...

Gilda Radner: The goal is...

The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what hap- pens, whether the cancer...

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Carol Burnett: People invite me...

Carol Burnett: People invite me...

People invite me to dinner not because I cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from...

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Thornton Wilder: I am convinced...

Thornton Wilder: I am convinced...

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to...

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J August Strindberg: In the old...

J August Strindberg: In the old...

In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend....

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Neil Simon: Don't listen to...

Neil Simon: Don't listen to...

Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it...

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John Keats: Praise or blame...

John Keats: Praise or blame...

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic...

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Dante: Nature is the...

Dante: Nature is the...

Nature is the art of God eternal.

Source: In The New Webster's Dictionary of...

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Sophocles: To a man...

Sophocles: To a man...

To a man who is afraid everything rustles.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Reading is important...

Gwendolyn Brooks: Reading is important...

Reading is important -- read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

Source:...

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Charles Dibdin: In every mess...

Charles Dibdin: In every mess...

In every mess I find a friend,
In every port a wife.


Source: Jack in his...

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John Lyly: Where the mind...

John Lyly: Where the mind...

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Nicolas Boileau: Whatever we well...

Nicolas Boileau: Whatever we well...

Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.

Source:...

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