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Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.

Ava Gardner

What I’d really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.
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Fame Myself Stardom
All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I’m through.
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Appearance Beautiful Myself
Love is nothing but a pain in the ass.
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Love One Liner Pain
I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.
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Age Alcohol Death Hands Live Myself Old Time
Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
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Feeling Float Myself Perfection Warm Water
God knows I’ve got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don’t.
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Forgiveness Fragile God Myself Understand
When I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.
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Angry Lose Myself Place Temper Yourself
Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn’t and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don’t think they understood me.
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Final Love Myself Thinking Understand
Fame gives you everything you never wanted.
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Fame Material Money Yourself
I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.
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Hard Husband Life Myself Suffering
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
When I’m old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.
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Cook Goodness Gray Home Kitchen Music Old Sea Wonderful
I have only one rule in acting – trust the director and give him heart and soul.
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Director Heart Himself Myself Rule Soul Trust
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
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
The truth is that the only time I’m happy is when I’m doing absolutely nothing. I don’t understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feel like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
AVA GARDNER

Feeling Myself People Perfection Talk Time Truth Understand

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