Women’s liberation as a movement makes some valid points. But in the final analysis, it doesn’t matter who wears the pants – as long as there’s money in the pockets.
AVA GARDNERHollywood – 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.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
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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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I couldn’t imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.
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And the news got worse. It appeared that there was this whole other person Jesus Christ whose birthday a lot of people tended to confuse with mine. I was personally outraged. It was a long time before I forgave the Lord for that.
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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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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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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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Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
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So this was where lust was satisfied. If I’d been an old-time miner I’d have asked for my gold nugget back.
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Love is nothing but a pain in the ass.
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I don’t mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I’ll go– cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.
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I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.
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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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Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl’s values.
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I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I’m kinda sentimental about the jewels.
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