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Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

Hedy Lamarr

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
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Appearance Beautiful Girl Stupidity
When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don’t just mean sex, I married him.
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Himself Man Marriage Myself Sex
I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don’t have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.
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Avoid Beautiful Funny Man Myself Relationship Woman
I don’t believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn’t, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.
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Believe Death Destiny Myself Safety
I know when I’m working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.
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Education Fame Myself Problem Trouble
I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don’t really care that much about women’s clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they’ll like her clothes.
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Fall In Love Man Myself Thinking Woman
I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn’t have it.
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Health Love Money Myself Wisdom
Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.
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Insult Myself People
It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
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Art Business Easy Politics Woman
I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.
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Myself Talk Understand Voice
Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don’t have time to teach him.
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Age Attraction Learning Man Myself Relationship Teaching Time
I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There’s nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.
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Enjoyment Exception Kiss Lips Make Up Myself
I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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Art Enemy Myself
Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.
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Choice Myself Relationship Sick Talk
The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
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Leadership Man Stars Success True
Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It’s OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat.
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Appearance Attraction Man See Yourself

Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

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Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

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