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"The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out."

Artist, Pleasure, Wrong

"The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event."

Idea,

"When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?"

Life, Will

"For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros."

Success, Grace, Memory

"You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself."

Day, First

"You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens."

Love, Day

"Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both."

Difference,

"The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage."

Actor, Actors

"Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping."

Difficulty, Difficulties, Forget, Past

"The best time to make friends is before you need them."

Time, Friends

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"As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you."

Fran Lebowitz, American Journalist

Time, Life, Will

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Time, Beginning, End, Now

"All great achievements require time."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Time,

"Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Time, Day

"Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."

Jim Rohn, American Businessman

Time, Money, Value

"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

Time, Life, Explanations, Waste

"Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

Time, Life, Being, Clocks

"The years teach much which the days never know."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Time, Years

"Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Time, Life, Act, Right, Waiting

"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future."

William Wordsworth, English Poet

Time, Life, Future, Past, Present