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I don't know what I want.
Nobody knows — or if they do, they don't know for long. I mean, you don't want the same thing long enough for it to be What You Want From Life in capital letters.
Well, maybe some people do. Maybe there's a few simple folks — or maybe a few million, I don't know — who fix their hearts, and their minds, and their everlasting souls on a thing, and keep on all their lives hoping for it. Living for it. Wanting It From Life.
But these are the people who never get it.
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Here's a rule I recommend. Never practice two vices at once.
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
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The cynic says "blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed." I say "blessed is he who expecteth everything, for he can't always be disappointed."
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Before we pursue this delicate subject further it might be wise to define intoxication. If you wake up in bed with your hat on you, it's my guess you may have been addled on retirement.
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I was raped in a driveway when I was eleven. … It was a terrible experience because we had all that gravel.
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I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
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Of Shirley Temple:
They used to shoot her through gauze. You should shoot me through linoleum.
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Despite all you may have heard to the contrary, I have never had a ride in a patrol wagon.
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It's unlikely I'll ever submit to a psychiatrist's couch. I don't want some stranger prowling around through my psyche, monkeying with my id. I don't need an analyst to tell me that I have never had any sense of security. Who has?
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I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water — I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
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Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know — I've been using it for years.
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Don't be taken in by the guff that critics are killing the theater. Commonly they sin on the side of enthusiasm. Too often they give their blessing to trash.
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All my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.
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The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
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Tallulah Bankhead
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Born:
January 31, 1902
Died:
December 12, 1968
(aged 66)
Bio:
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead was an American actress of the stage and screen, and a reputed libertine. Bankhead was known for her husky voice, outrageous personality, and devastating wit.
Known for:
Lifeboat (1944)
Fanatic (1965)
A Royal Scandal (1945)
Devil and the Deep (1932)
Tarnished Lady (1931)
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