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"Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can."
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"Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet."
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"I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead."
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"If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing."
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"I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl."
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"Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions."
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"Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy."
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"I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building."
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"The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing."
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"I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting."
Baby
"A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one."
Marriage
"The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself."
Folly
"I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness."
Happiness
"For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous."
Woman
"Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves."
Events
"Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can."
Being
"When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage."
Marriage
"I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous."
Artist
"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist."
Defeat
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