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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More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they’ll run the other way.
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A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
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Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me, and still is.
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All creative people want to do the unexpected.
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I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.
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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
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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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All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.
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I’ve met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.
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It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
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If I were to name my favorite pastime, I’d have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.
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Mr. DeMille’s theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
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Because you don’t live near a bakery doesn’t mean you have to go without cheesecake.
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Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
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Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn’t mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.
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