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"There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in."

"I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage."

"Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline."

"From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings."

"Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity."

"The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity."

"Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end."
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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."

"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
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