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"The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after."
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"My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one."

"A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother."

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"If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience."


"I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone."


"I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity."


"I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition."


"The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner."
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