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Tallulah Bankhead: I thought I...

Tallulah Bankhead: I thought I...

I thought I told you to wait in the car.

Source: On seeing a former lover after an...

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Sarah Bernhardt: For the theatre...

Sarah Bernhardt: For the theatre...

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can...

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Lillian Gish: Young man, if...

Lillian Gish: Young man, if...

Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your...

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Cornelia Otis Skinner: Women's virtue is...

Cornelia Otis Skinner: Women's virtue is...

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Source: In Paris '90.
-- Cornelia...

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Gilda Radner: Life is about...

Gilda Radner: Life is about...

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going...

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Gilda Radner: I can always...

Gilda Radner: I can always...

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

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Lily Tomlin: Instead of working...

Lily Tomlin: Instead of working...

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest -- then we...

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Gilda Radner: I think dogs...

Gilda Radner: I think dogs...

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being...

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Phylicia Rashad: The stubbornness I...

Phylicia Rashad: The stubbornness I...

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perserverence. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't...

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Sammy Davis, Jr: Being a star...

Sammy Davis, Jr: Being a star...

Being a star made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get...

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Bing Crosby: Oh -- I...

Bing Crosby: Oh -- I...

Oh -- I listen more and talk less. You can't learn anything when you're talking.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Faultily faultless, icily...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Faultily faultless, icily...

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Now slides the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Now slides the...

Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves
A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me.


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Lorraine Hansberry: Seems like God...

Lorraine Hansberry: Seems like God...

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams -- but He did give us children to make them...

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Lorraine Hansberry: The thing that...

Lorraine Hansberry: The thing that...

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you...

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Peter Shaffer: If London is...

Peter Shaffer: If London is...

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

Source: In NY Times, 13 Apr...

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J August Strindberg: Happiness consumes itself...

J August Strindberg: Happiness consumes itself...

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end...

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Ludovico Ariosto: We soon believe...

Ludovico Ariosto: We soon believe...

We soon believe the things we would believe.

Source: Orlando Furioso, 1532.
--...

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John Clare: Still, I have...

John Clare: Still, I have...

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to...

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Richard Armour: [John Foster Dulles]...

Richard Armour: [John Foster Dulles]...

[John Foster Dulles] invented Brinkmanship, the most popular game since Monopoly.

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