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Sex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.

Ava Gardner

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.
AVA GARDNER

Hard Husband Life Myself Suffering
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 must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.
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History Hollywood Myself Rise Sun
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 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
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
Fame gives you everything you never wanted.
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Fame Material Money Yourself
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
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.
AVA GARDNER

Day Director Fame Famous Hell Make Up Movie Myself
Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
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Feeling Float Myself Perfection Warm Water
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
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.
AVA GARDNER

Mistake Myself People Play Thinking Wrong
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
I couldn’t imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.
AVA GARDNER

End Imagination Movie Myself World
It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
AVA GARDNER

Believe Lust Pity Simplicity
Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.
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Animal Education Study

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