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Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

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Anita Loos
Age: 92 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1981
Died: August 18
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Memoirist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Mount Shasta
California
Corinne Anita Loos
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Remorse
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In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as wellas her own.
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Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.
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I don't think the written word is important in movies anymore and the really great movies are done by great directors who in many cases write their own scripts. I think it's gotten to be more of a visual thing than an audible thing.
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...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.
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Any girl who was a lady would not even think of having such a good time that she did not remember to hang on to her jewelry.
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Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of mental crack-up. Yes, if we were childish in the past, I wish we could be children once again.
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I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.
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I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.
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Does this boat go to Europe, France?
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Gentlemen prefer blondes.
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And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.
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I began quite early in life to sense the thrill a girl attains in supplying money to a man.
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Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.
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If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.
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Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!
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On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.
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Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, naughty meant piquant, whereas values have so changed that now, in the 1970s, it generally means nauseating.
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I don't like diabolism so I stay away from things like Clockwork Orange. I think diabolism is awfully childish. I don't even want to see The Godfather. I couldn't stand seeing that horse's head cut off. I wouldn't mind if it were Marlon Brando's.
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I used to think that looking across a pillow into the fabulous face of Buster Keaton would be a more thrilling destiny than any screen career.
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Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
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