Mercedes McCambridge Quotes
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My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.
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I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.
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Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.
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I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.
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I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room
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Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.
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So many people have really wanted to die. They seem ashamed to say so. I think it would help if they would say so
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I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.
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My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.
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Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.
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I think The Exorcist was the hardest work I've ever done