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I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
Audrey Hepburn
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When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
Edith Evans
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I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me yet.
Diana Rigg
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You can't bring logic into this. We're talking about marriage. Marriage is like the Middle East. There's no solution.
Pauline Collins
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No Cricklewood girl would ever admit to being from there.
Jean Simmons
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I drank to be funny, or sexy. I drank because I was afraid or happy or sad, and I drank for anything that required emotional commitment.... I had chosen a profession that thrives on insecurity, and is never far from some source of social intercourse that involves alcohol or drugs.
Lynda Bellingham
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You have to learn to work and search, not expect instantly to find.
Patsy Rodenburg
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Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.
Natascha McElhone
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But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded.
Jessie Burton
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I was born a vegetarian. … I feel there is no need to cause another living thing pain or harm. There are so many other things we can eat. I have never eaten meat in my life, and I'm 5 foot 10 and not exactly wasting away. A wise man once said, 'Animals are my friends, and I'm not in the habit of eating my friends.' That is exactly how I feel.
Joss Stone
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We would consider it cruel to confine a dog permanently in a kennel. Yet we visit zoos where hundreds of wild animals are kept permanently in the equivalent of a kennel.
Virginia McKenna
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There is no more West. We are the West. So we've got to take care of what we have.
Wendy Glenn
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Of Greta Garbo:
A rather boring old Swede, but luckily she loves doing the washing-up.
Gladys Cooper
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They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well, my parts have done me pretty well, darling.
Barbara Windsor
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It always makes me laugh when people ask why anyone would want to do a sitcom in America. If it runs five years, you never have to work again.
Twiggy
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I want Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D played at my funeral. If it isn't I shall jolly well want to know why.
Sybil Thorndike
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She sat down in a weed patch, her elbows on her knees, and kept her eyes on the small sterious world of the ground. In the shade and sun of grass blade forests, small living things had their metropolis.
Nancy Price
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Everything is easier in France. We pay more taxes, but the hospitals don't kill you.
Kristin Scott Thomas
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I wasn't strong enough to withstand such strong opinions. I keep them in a trunk and, from time to time, will read one from long ago.
Sian Phillips
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Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.
Jacqueline Bisset
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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.
Jill Bennett
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Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.
Penelope Keith
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The daughter of British actors Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson, answering a phone call:
They're not in. Daddy is reading Shakespeare Sonnets to the blind and Mummy's playing Shakespeare to the lepers.
Ann Casson
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Women who do not opt out of demanding professional positions are more likely to opt out of demanding family obligations.
Barbara Kellerman
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My life has been one long descent into respectability.
Mandy Rice-Davies
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