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My daughter used to sit and watch Murder, She Wrote. I tried to watch with her, but I fell asleep.
Angela Lansbury
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Angela Lansbury
Age: 99
Born: 1925
Born: October 16
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My memory about names and places now is dreadful. But lines, I can remember.
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I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.
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I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life. But I want to dance and bop around, and I did, and I can.
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Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides.
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You learn the values that are inherent in the scene that the writer has written. You learn about who you as a character are in relation to those others who are working with you within that scene.
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I honestly consider that the greatest gift to me, is the reaction that I get from my work. That is a given which I never, ever take for granted. But to be given that by audiences, individuals, on the street, in the theater, is an extraordinary feeling.
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