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"It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays."
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"I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born."
"You can't afford to leave your happiness to others. Create what you wish to experience."
"To make it a perfect season, love everyone without reason."
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"The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down."
"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."
"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."
"Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down."
"I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life."
"Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races."
"You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you."
"Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."
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