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"For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."
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"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."
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"I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?"
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"I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did."
Mother

"So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you."
Love

"When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation."
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"As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening."
Woman

"The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark."
Years

"Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat."
Old

"For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important."
Being

"I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things."
Business

"I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now."
Life
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