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"After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded."
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"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."
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"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."
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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 got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink."
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"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."
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"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive."
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"I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that."
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"In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture."
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"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."
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"There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business."
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"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."
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"I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family."
Family

"No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer."
World

"All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic."
Life

"There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen."
Hell

"After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded."
Houses

"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."
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"I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me."
Death
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