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What I’d really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.

Ava Gardner

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
Love is nothing but a pain in the ass.
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Love One Liner Pain
I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I’m kinda sentimental about the jewels.
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Book Emotion Jewel Myself Writing
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.
AVA GARDNER

Better Divorce Hollywood Philosophy Place Public View
When I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.
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Angry Lose Myself Place Temper Yourself
I was never an actress — none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.
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Children Goodness Movie Myself
It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
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Believe Lust Pity Simplicity
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.
AVA GARDNER

Final Love Myself Thinking Understand
I haven’t taken an overdose of sleeping pills and called my agent. I haven’t been in jail, and I don’t go running to the psychiatrist every two minutes. That’s something of an accomplishment these days.
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Accomplishment Myself Prison 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
I want to remember it all, the good times and the bad times, the late nights, the boozing, the dancing into dawns, and all the great and not-so-great people I met and loved in those years.
AVA GARDNER

Bad Goodness Greatness Myself Night Remember Time
Sex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
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Important Love Relationship Sex Yourself
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
I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.
AVA GARDNER

Money Myself Reason Time
Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.
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Fame Fortune Happiness Home Yourself

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