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I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

Hedy Lamarr

I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.
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Advice Enjoyment Live Money Myself People Yourself
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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Attraction Company Kind Myself People Travel
Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
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Confidence Emotional Freedom Greatness Myself Time
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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Animal Goodness Love Myself
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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Listen Love Myself People Talk Time
I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.
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Breathe Death Memories Myself Person Privacy 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 don’t have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.
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Blame Happiness Husband Myself Suffering
I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.
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Failure Job Money Myself People Rich
Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.
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Lost Photograph Time Win Yourself
The world isn’t getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more, The hurried way is not the right way; you need time for everything – time to work, time to play, time to rest.
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Believe Easy Myself Play Time World
Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.
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Big Divorce Marriage
One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.
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Herself Himself Hope Myself People Promise
I’d rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.
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Appearance Beautiful Myself
Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
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Magic Philosophy Tolerance Word
Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
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Age Born Confidence Yourself
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
The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn’t get a divorce for almost a year.
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End Marriage Time
I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.
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Feeling Gift Man Myself
The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
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Feeling Pay Public
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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Difference Himself Marriage Oppression Rule Sex Thinking Woman
I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.
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Feeling Husband Man Marriage Myself Quit
If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude… I hope to make you use your imagination.
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Herself Imagination Naked 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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Important Independence Marriage Myself Need Problem Woman
I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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Art Enemy Myself
Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me, and still is.
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Attraction Future Hope Myself
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

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

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