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Jessamyn West

"The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting."

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"The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting."

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"Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract."
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"I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt."
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"A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain."
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"In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?"
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"The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future."
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