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"The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor."
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"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."

"The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me."

"I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer."
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"In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted."

"I stuck out like a sore thumb when I came on, just by the fact that I looked so different. I think that adjustment for the audience was a hurdle for me."
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"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."


"Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness."


"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."


"The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter."


"What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose."


"Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement."


"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies."


"The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always."
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