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I’ve been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only have three close friends. I guess that’s all anyone can expect.

Hedy Lamarr

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.
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Citizenship Education Knowledge Myself
All creative people want to do the unexpected.
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Art Creation Expectation People
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
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 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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Affection Myself People Run Talk Yourself
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 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
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
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 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
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
If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist’s office.
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Doctor Myself Sick Yourself
To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
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Fame People Stars Taste World
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
Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
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Magic Philosophy Tolerance Word
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

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