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Love is nothing but a pain in the ass

Ava Gardner

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Ava Gardner
Age: 67 †
Born: 1922
Born: December 24
Died: 1990
Died: January 25
Actor
Actress
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Film Actor
Model
Television Actor
Ava Lavinia Gardner
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Pain
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Love

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I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
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I was never an actress -- none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.
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I am deeply superficial.
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After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: “She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!”
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I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.
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The truth is that the only time I'm happy is when I'm doing absolutely nothing. I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feel like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
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I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
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Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me.
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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
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I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.
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I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.
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I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.
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Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong
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What I'd really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.
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Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl's values
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Sing me not a song let me hear your recital of veneration and respect this I will listen to over and over when I share your need of pleasing.
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If I had my life to live over again, I'd live it the same way. Maybe a few changes here or there, but nothing special. The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.
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When I'm old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.
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I haven't taken an overdose of sleeping pills and called my agent. I haven't been in jail, and I don't go running to the psychiatrist every two minutes. That's something of an accomplishment these days.
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Sex isn't all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
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