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"I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal."
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"What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait."
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"Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool."
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"I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London."
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"Hollywood is a world all its own."
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"I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood."
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"Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse."
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"I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter."
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"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks."
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"Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting."
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"The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin."
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"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form."
Woman
"I sometimes wonder if I am crisscrossing my father's ghostly paths and we are entering same towns or roadside diners or the black ribbons of highways that gleam in the night rain. As if we were images in a time-lapse photograph."
Reflection
"Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers."
Woman
"I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves."
Identity
"I've noticed that great political leaders are energized by conflict. I'm energized by listening to people's stories and trying to figure out shared solutions. That's the work of an organizer."
Leadership
"All my years campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still, I realize this fully only by looking back."
Politics
"It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate."
Change
"For me, those weeks in Boston, with Wilma, became a lesson in her ability to be "of good mind, in her phrase, which also meant a people's ability to survive."
Culture
"Flo especially took me in hand. When I felt I had to prove the existence of discrimination with statistics, for instance, she pulled me aside. 'If you're lying in the ditch with a truck on your ankle,' she said patiently, 'you don't send someone to the library to find out how much the truck weighs. You get it off!"
Life
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