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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."

"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know."

"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else."

"I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay."

"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."

"Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life."
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