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"I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures."
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"You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he really is. This is why adhering to gossip subtly affects the mental state of the listener - he goes on holding shady opinions regardless of where the realities of their lights and darknesses may stand."
"It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things."
"We call talking about other people's personal lives 'gossip' only if we aren't or weren't part of the conversation."
"The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them."
"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."
"One who gossips usually carries boredom in one hand and bitterness in the other."
"Though people sort of need your permission to talk to you, they do not really need one to talk about you."
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"I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes."
"I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them."
"I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame."
"My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician."
"If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill."
"Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living."
"I have plenty of invitations to go places, lots to do. If I'm not working, I go to have my hair taken care of and work at needlepoint."
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