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"When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long."
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"You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, but because you don't want it intensely enough."
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"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
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"It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail."
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"I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it."
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"If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed."
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"When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there."
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"Well there are those who think you can only succeed at someone else's expense."
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"When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long."
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"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes"; They will say, "Women don't have what it takes"."
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"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed."
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"The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films."
Actor

"I had been told by so many people that I was going to be nominated, that I should be nominated, that there wasn't any question about my being nominated. I don't think it was a surprise."
People

"A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets."
Heart

"I wanted to be a theater actress, but I thought it would be easier to get to New York and the theater if I had a name than if I just walked the streets as a little girl from California."
Thought

"I quit after my seven-year contract with Universal was up. I quit for 33 years."
Years

"Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance."
Performance

"I've been very, very successful. It's very satisfying to me."
Success

"It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair."
Love

"The John Ford pictures I made are highly regarded, but at the time they didn't seem like that."
Time

"When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long."
Succeed
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