I’ve been through it all, baby, I’m mother courage.
ELIZABETH TAYLORThe things that are important to me – being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist – are all things that were borne out of great passion.
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Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.
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I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it’s forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can’t ride.
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Everything makes me nervous – except making films.
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I think I’m finally growing up – and about time.
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It’s all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.
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My mother says I didn’t open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
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I wear perfume even when I’m alone.
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If it is not to make the world better what is money for?
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So much is said with the electricity of the eyes, the intensity of a whisper. Less is more.
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Now is the time for guts and guile.
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I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being – to prove that we are a human race, to prove that our love outweighs our need to hate, that our compassion is more compelling than our need to blame.
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When people say, ‘She’s got everything’, I’ve got one answer – I haven’t had tomorrow.
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I like the connection with fans and people who have been supportive of me. And I love the idea of real feedback and a two-way street, which is very, very modern.
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Follow your passions, follow your heart, and the things you need will come.
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Just in case you get pneumonia or die. The dangerous bits are always the last days of shooting.
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It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
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I know I’m vulgar, but would you have me any other way?
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I don’t love acting; I love chocolate.
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I don’t like my voice. I don’t like the way I look. I don’t like the way I move. I don’t like the way I act. I mean, period. So, you know, I don’t like myself.
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Thanks Darling for the beautiful flowers and all the prayers. Now can you just get my puppy past security?
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Money is the best deodorant.
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Put on some lipstick and pull yourself together.
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When women stops blushing, she has lost the most powerful weapon of charm.
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Big girls need big diamonds.
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Acting is, to me now, artificial. Seeing people suffer is real. It couldn’t be more real. Some people don’t like to look at it in the face because it’s painful. But if nobody does, then nothing gets done.
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It’s amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don’t want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.
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