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Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'
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To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly.
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Wise girls kiss but never love, Listen but never believe, And leave befor they are left.
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I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.
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Do not worry, and worry.
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Jewish men don't know anything.
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As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.
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Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.
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My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on.
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There is a future, and I can't wait to get to it.
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The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
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Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'
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Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?
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I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.
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I've always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about me.
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When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.
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I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.
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I think I made his back feel better.
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The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.
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We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.
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Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
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An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?
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Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.
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I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress.
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