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"Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk."
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"Friendship is a magnificent art of life that is drawn by two hearts and two minds."

"Because God is love the most important lesson He wants you to learn on earth is how to love."

"I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you."

"Time should make enemies and Life should make friends."

"Though I can make a friend in an hour, it will take a lifetime to cultivate a friendship."

"Best friends are those people who reveal to you what is wonderful inside of you, and you can all still laugh together."

"Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs."

"We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them."

"It's the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we'll move on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on."

"The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ."
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"The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down."

"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."

"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."

"Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down."

"I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life."

"Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races."

"You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you."

"Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."
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