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"My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful."
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"I've missed you, Sebastian.""Have you, love?" He unfastened the buttons of her robe, the light eyes glittering with heat as her skin was revealed. "What part did you miss the most?""Your mind," she said, and smiled at his expression."I was hoping for a far more depraved answer than that.""Your mind is depraved," she told him solemnly.He gave a husky laugh. "True."

"I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ten minutes whether they wanted to go to bed together; and that the time that passed after those first ten minutes represented a tax, which might be worth paying if the article promised to be really enjoyable, but which nine times out of ten became rapidly excessive."

"Desires are not killed by fulfilling them."

"The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master."
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"When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!"

"We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it."

"Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique."

"That's a powerful lucky rabbit's foot. I got the part in Gone With the Wind because of it. I got my Warner contract, thanks to it."

"I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry."

"In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book."
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