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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.

Ava Gardner

When I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.
AVA GARDNER

Angry Lose Myself Place Temper 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.
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.
AVA GARDNER

Care Enjoyment Enough Fun Myself Night Sleep
I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I’m kinda sentimental about the jewels.
AVA GARDNER

Book Emotion Jewel Myself Writing
What I’d really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.
AVA GARDNER

Fame Myself Stardom
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
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
I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.
AVA GARDNER

Money Myself Reason Time
Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.
AVA GARDNER

Animal Education Study
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.
AVA GARDNER

Cook Goodness Gray Home Kitchen Music Old Sea Wonderful
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.
AVA GARDNER

Angry Forgiveness Myself News Person Personal Time Worst
All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I’m through.
AVA GARDNER

Appearance Beautiful Myself
So this was where lust was satisfied. If I’d been an old-time miner I’d have asked for my gold nugget back.
AVA GARDNER

Gold Lust Myself Old Satisfaction Time
Love is nothing but a pain in the ass.
AVA GARDNER

Love One Liner Pain
I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.
AVA GARDNER

History Hollywood Myself Rise Sun
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.
AVA GARDNER

Listening Myself Need Respect Share Sing Song
Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.
AVA GARDNER

Fame Fortune Happiness Home Yourself
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.
AVA GARDNER

Forgiveness Fragile God Myself Understand
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.
AVA GARDNER

Age Alcohol Death Hands Live Myself Old Time
I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio.
AVA GARDNER

Better Hell Learning Movie Myself Quite Respect Studio
I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
AVA GARDNER

Cheating Hate Myself Relationship
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 GARDNER

Freedom Liberty Money Movement Valid Woman
It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
AVA GARDNER

Believe Lust Pity Simplicity
Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl’s values.
AVA GARDNER

Believe Character Country Girl Myself Value Woman
I have only one rule in acting – trust the director and give him heart and soul.
AVA GARDNER

Director Heart Himself Myself Rule Soul Trust
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
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.
AVA GARDNER

Growth Hands Mindset Myself Old

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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