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"I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them."
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"There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions."
Discipline
"Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square."
Music
"I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame."
Character
"I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old."
Time
"Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own."
Christmas
"I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures."
Gossip
"Everything's coming up roses - for me."
Roses
"I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words."
Care
"I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me."
Popular
"Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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Personal Development
"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."
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Personal Development
"Being is more important than doing."
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Personal Development
"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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Personal Development
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development
"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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Personal Development
"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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Personal Development
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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Personal Development
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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Personal Development
"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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Personal Development
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