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I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I’m kinda sentimental about the jewels.

Ava Gardner

Hollywood – that’s a place where love is viewed both pragmatically and philosophically in the saying, ‘Tis better to have loved and divorced than never to have had any publicity at all.
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Better Divorce Hollywood Philosophy Place Public View
Fame gives you everything you never wanted.
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Fame Material Money Yourself
Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl’s values.
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Believe Character Country Girl Myself Value Woman
I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
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Cheating Hate Myself Relationship
All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I’m through.
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Appearance Beautiful Myself
I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
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Failure Love Marriage Myself Thinking Wisdom
I’ve certainly never taken the care of myself that I should have. On the contrary. I’ve done a lot of late nights without enough sleep and all that. But I’ve had fun. Whatever wrinkles are there, I’ve enjoyed getting them.
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Care Enjoyment Enough Fun Myself Night Sleep
Oh, what the hell did I know? I went to the set the first day in full makeup and the director told me to take it off. So I did the film without makeup. I had nothing to do with anything I did. I never understood why I was so famous.
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Day Director Fame Famous Hell Make Up Movie Myself
Love is nothing but a pain in the ass.
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Love One Liner Pain
Sex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
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Important Love Relationship Sex Yourself
I couldn’t imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.
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End Imagination Movie Myself World
Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn’t have been more wrong.
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Mistake Myself People Play Thinking Wrong
When I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.
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Angry Lose Myself Place Temper Yourself
Sing me not a song; let me hear your recital of veneration and respect; this I will listen to over and over when I share your need of pleasing.
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Listening Myself Need Respect Share Sing Song
Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
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Feeling Float Myself Perfection Warm Water
Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.
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Fame Fortune Happiness Home Yourself

I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I’m kinda sentimental about the jewels.

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