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Kate Chopin: I wonder if...

Kate Chopin: I wonder if...

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of...

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Bette Davis: Never, never trust...

Bette Davis: Never, never trust...

Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.

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Tallulah Bankhead: I read Shakespeare...

Tallulah Bankhead: I read Shakespeare...

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal...

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Ruth Draper: He said I...

Ruth Draper: He said I...

He said I was the most sensitive person he had ever seen -- that I belonged to the hyper-hyper type and we rarely...

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Elizabeth Taylor: When people say,...

Elizabeth Taylor: When people say,...

When people say, She's got everything, I've got one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.

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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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Deborah Kerr: Do you think...

Deborah Kerr: Do you think...

Do you think it will ever take the place of night baseball?

Source: In An Affair to...

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Lynn Fontanne: One reason we...

Lynn Fontanne: One reason we...

One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were realistic...

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Didi Conn: We stayed in...

Didi Conn: We stayed in...

We stayed in character all day long, we had everybody call us by our character's names . . . that gave us the creative...

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Anouk Aimee: You can only...

Anouk Aimee: You can only...

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Source: In The...

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Simone Signoret: Nostalgia isn't what...

Simone Signoret: Nostalgia isn't what...

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Gloria Vanderbilt: I've always believed...

Gloria Vanderbilt: I've always believed...

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

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Grandma Moses: Painting's not important....

Grandma Moses: Painting's not important....

Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.

Source: In Words of...

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Diane Arbus: Love involves a...

Diane Arbus: Love involves a...

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

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Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Too many people...

Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Too many people...

Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.

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Elizabeth Arden: Nothing that costs...

Elizabeth Arden: Nothing that costs...

Nothing that costs only a dollar is worth having.

Source: In In Cosmetics the Old...

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Sylvia Porter: One of the...

Sylvia Porter: One of the...

One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is...

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Faith Popcorn: The trouble with...

Faith Popcorn: The trouble with...

The trouble with corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), travel the...

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Lorraine Hansberry: One cannot live...

Lorraine Hansberry: One cannot live...

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the...

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Emily Dickinson: A word is...

Emily Dickinson: A word is...

A word is dead when it is said, some say.
I say it just begins to live that day.


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