Tallulah Bankhead Quotes
The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
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You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
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There is always pressure in football.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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Sleep is the best meditation.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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My life has shifted to different levels financially, in terms of fame as a result of being blessed enough to be able to share my music with the world, and what that has done for me. Despite all of that, I always want people to listen to my music and be able to relate to it as well as to me.
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I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.
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Within our lifetime, we can remember a time when Islamism wasn't the dominant form of discourse or the aim should be to minimise the absolutists within any religious community and contain them.
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From Michael Jackson to Peggy Lee, I like it all.
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You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.
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The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
