Tallulah Bankhead Quotes
If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
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I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
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I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
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And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.
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The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
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Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.
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If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.
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I never had to look for confidence because I just wore what I wanted to wear. I would never wear anything to offend my husband or my mother, but outside of that, I always figured, I hope I'm not a rebel, and I hope everybody liked it. And if they didn't like it, it really was not going to disturb me because it was their problem, not mine.
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The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
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I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much.
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Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
