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"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else."
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"Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding."

"I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay."

"The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
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