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Ethel Barrymore

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

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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."
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