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"Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me."
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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."
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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
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"Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely."
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"I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing."
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"The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever."
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"First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck."
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"Definitely not a sitcom, that's my first condition. No sitcoms."
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"When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when I first heard it and it just moved me."
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"It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band."
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"You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name."
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"Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman."
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"When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god."
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"I had always been a tomboy - I still am, at heart."
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"Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me."
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"The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men."
Men
"As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic."
Lady
"John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time."
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"I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously."
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"I have never lost my faith in God."
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"The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s."
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