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"Trial and error is not bad, but not the best. If you don't know where the crowd is going, don't follow it. Get set."
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Personal Development

"Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy."
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Personal Development

"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."
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Personal Development

"Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population."
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Personal Development

"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."
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Personal Development

"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."
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Personal Development

"What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors."
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Personal Development

"Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket."
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Personal Development

"When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill."
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Personal Development

"Giving advice is like seeing an elephant in someone's path and suggesting they remove it. Heeding advice requires forcing the elephant to budge. Huge difference."
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"For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done."
Mother

"That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face."
Time

"I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book."
Love

"Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?"
Friendship

"The producers who wanted me to do it liked me and trusted me, and more than one scene was only one take, because I'd plan ahead what I thought would be appropriate for that scene-so one take was enough."
Thought

"Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right."
Thought

"He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really."
Humor

"There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above."
Clothes

"There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood."
Intelligence

"Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size."
State
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