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"I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people."
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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 plenty of invitations to go places, lots to do. If I'm not working, I go to have my hair taken care of and work at needlepoint."
Work
"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
"At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped-and I haven't had a cigarette since."
Time
"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."
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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."
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"People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."
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Personal Development
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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Personal Development
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
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