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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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If somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! You're wasting my time.
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For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I've often entertained the idea of ending my days there.
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This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.
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I don't want to see a movie twice. I don't want to do anything twice.
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I love holidays in New York. I love `em. I want to celebrate something all the time and New York has holidays for every day of the week, practically. I like holidays in New York City.
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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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People will always be around to tell you you're no good or you're wrong or unwise to keep doing what you want to do. They're wrong. They're always wrong. Keep going.
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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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Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives.
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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 am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.
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I always say, 'If you can't give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don't have the comic slide over it.' Do you understand what I mean? First explain how the banana peel got there quickly. And then there's a reason for all the comedy.
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I have not had any of that surgical stuff. I am too curious to find out exactly how I progress every day of my life naturally. That is what fascinates me.
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Tony Bennett said to me, Wow, your talent is amazing. Maybe he's a bore, maybe he's a jerk, but when he said that to me, I didn't need anything more than that.
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I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'
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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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As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.
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