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Maya Angelou: There is no...

Maya Angelou: There is no...

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.

Source: From a...

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Diane Trilling: There's much to...

Diane Trilling: There's much to...

There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.

Source:...

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Rebecca West: Before a war...

Rebecca West: Before a war...

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy. But after a war it seems more like...

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Julia Ward Howe: Every life has...

Julia Ward Howe: Every life has...

Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare and profitless...

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Anna Kournikova: I'm like an...

Anna Kournikova: I'm like an...

I'm like an expensive menu. . . you can look but you can't afford!

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Georgia O'Keeffe: I don't very...

Georgia O'Keeffe: I don't very...

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them...

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Barbara Ward: There is no...

Barbara Ward: There is no...

There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half...

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Susan RoAne: They say, You...

Susan RoAne: They say, You...

They say, You can't give a smile away; it always comes back. The same is true of a kind word or a conversation...

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Marlo Thomas: Fame lost its...

Marlo Thomas: Fame lost its...

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper...

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Sally Field: I really have...

Sally Field: I really have...

I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people....

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Geena Davis: If it isn't...

Geena Davis: If it isn't...

If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce.

Source: On her...

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Maria Schell: If there were...

Maria Schell: If there were...

If there were one city I should pick to live in, it would be New York. It is a city where I walk down the street and...

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Kirstie Alley: I don't think...

Kirstie Alley: I don't think...

I don't think that [children are] any more resilent than anyone else. They're just people with little...

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Didi Conn: In terms of...

Didi Conn: In terms of...

In terms of my store of emotional experiences it now as many more aisles than twenty years ago to pick...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: I am a...

Gwendolyn Brooks: I am a...

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

Source: In My Soul Looks Back,...

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Amy Lowell: All books are...

Amy Lowell: All books are...

All books are either dreams or swords,
You can cut, or you can drug, with words.


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Gypsy Rose Lee: God is love,...

Gypsy Rose Lee: God is love,...

God is love, but get it in writing.

Source: Attributed.
-- Gypsy Rose Lee, (Feb...

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Hedda Hopper: In Hollywood gratitude...

Hedda Hopper: In Hollywood gratitude...

In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.

Source: From Under My Hat,...

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Kathleen Turner: I'm not bad,...

Kathleen Turner: I'm not bad,...

I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

Source: Turner as the voice of Jessica Rabbit...

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Lillian Gish: You know, when...

Lillian Gish: You know, when...

You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and...

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