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I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.
Elaine Stritch
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Elaine Stritch
Age: 89 †
Born: 1925
Born: February 2
Died: 2014
Died: July 17
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Detroit
Michigan
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As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.
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Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.
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I don't dislike the way I look. I think I look fine. I think I look extraordinary for 88. And I've got energy. Out of my way.
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I wouldn't have a nose job. I like my nose fine.
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I love reviews. Anybody who tells you they don't read reviews is a liar.
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Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives.
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Two drinks a day. Two drinks a day. TWO DRINKS A DAY! It doesn't work! Not when you want eleven, and not when you start shopping for wine glasses in the vase department at Bloomingdales.
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Everybody's got a sack of rocks.
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