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"I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else."
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"I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle."

"There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights."

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."

"Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him."
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"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."

"If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be."

"If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too."

"I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced."

"Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy."

"There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet."

"Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming."

"The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public."

"I think that the public is in and the public is in big, and the public is not, I don't think going to pull out because the public knows what I said about 1987."
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