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It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.
Anita Loos
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Anita Loos
Age: 92 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1981
Died: August 18
Autobiographer
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Mount Shasta
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Corinne Anita Loos
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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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I began quite early in life to sense the thrill a girl attains in supplying money to a man.
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Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life.
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A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
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One might feel that, at my age, I should look on life with more gravity. After all, I've been privileged to listen, firsthand, tosome of the most profound thinkers of my daywho were all beset by gloom over the condition the world had gotten into. Then why can't I view it with anything but amusement?
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Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd.
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There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.
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And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?
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Memory is more indelible than ink.
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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 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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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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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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Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.
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I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character' possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.
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Does this boat go to Europe, France?
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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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