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I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do.
Elaine Stritch
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Elaine Stritch
Age: 89 †
Born: 1925
Born: February 2
Died: 2014
Died: July 17
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I don't think I'm gonna die tomorrow or even two weeks from now, or even ever. I just don't know - who the hell knows what's gonna happen to them? Nobody! Isn't that comforting? Nobody has a clue. I like that we don't know. And I like that it's somebody else's decision, not mine.
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It gets tiring being a smartass.
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I've changed a lot, too! I'm different, too. I have far more in some ways to offer and far less in other ways to offer. That's life. And, you know, life goes on!
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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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Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.
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I like to keep active. I've got too much energy not to.
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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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I wouldn't have a nose job. I like my nose fine.
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Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives.
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I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.
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I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.
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You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.
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I don't know what to do with Warren Beatty. All I know is that he wasn't attracted to me. That's all right.
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I was so happy I didn't have to work that night. That was the truth, because show business is about the hardest profession in the world.
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It's very disconcerting to start out and to say, I'm going to tell the truth, and then to realize it's that much trouble.
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Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it.
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