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"Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator."
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"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."
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"I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills."
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"We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways."
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"All houses are haunted. All persons are haunted. Throngs of spirits follow us everywhere. We are never alone."
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"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."
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"We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing."
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"You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin."
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"We all came from houses with doors, doors that were supposed to be closed when there were things going on that we weren't supposed to see, and when our pants were down."
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"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
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"If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It's like a mural."
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"I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him."
Home
"Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not."
People
"Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit."
Talent
"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
Father
"I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man."
Interest
"Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese."
Career
"Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set."
Behavior
"Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish."
Life
"Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful."
Beauty
"I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection."
Reflection
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