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A bit of conversational sex makes a pleasant climate for creative effort.

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Anita Loos
Age: 92 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1981
Died: August 18
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Memoirist
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Screenwriter
Writer
Mount Shasta
California
Corinne Anita Loos
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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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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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And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?
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I was born in the theatre. My father was a small time impresario on the West Coast and I was acting from the age of 7, but I started to write when I was 12 and by the time I was 14 I was making more money than I was acting.
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It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.
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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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A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.
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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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Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
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The wrong side of the tracks is livelier.
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Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen.
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Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.
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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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Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time.
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That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.
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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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When I was very young and first worked in Hollywood, the films had bred in me one sole ambition: to get away from them to live inthe great world outside movies to meet people who created their own situations through living them who ad-libbed their own dialogue whose jokes were not the contrivance of some gag writer.
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Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd.
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