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I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

Elizabeth Taylor

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Elizabeth Taylor
Age: 79 †
Born: 1932
Born: February 27
Died: 2011
Died: March 23
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A name no longer carries a film. People used to go to the cinema to see a John Wayne film. And you don't have that thing happening now except in the rock world, which has taken the event out of movies.
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Being able to go on location and see the world was the greatest perk of all.
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When I'm not with the one I love, I love the one I'm with.
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I have never felt more alive than when I watched my children delight in something, never more alive than when I have watched a great artist perform, and never richer than when I have scored a big check to fight AIDS.
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Every breath you take today should be with someone else in mind.
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I hate being called Liz, because it can sound like such a hiss.
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The public me, the one named Elizabeth Taylor, has become a lot of hokum and fabrication - a bunch of drivel - and I find her slightly revolting.
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Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream.
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There's no deodorant like success.
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On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second.
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I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.
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When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.
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I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit
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I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being - to prove that we are a human race, to prove that our love outweighs our need to hate, that our compassion is more compelling than our need to blame.
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It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.
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All I see in the mirror every morning is a face that needs washing.
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I mean, how many young women get a set of rubies just for doing something wholesome like swimming laps? Or win a diamond ring at Ping-Pong with their husband... ? Well, I did, and for all of these memories and the people in my life I feel blessed.
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I'm not like anyone. I'm me.
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The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.
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Acting is, to me now, artificial. Seeing people suffer is real. It couldn't be more real. Some people don't like to look at it in the face because it's painful. But if nobody does, then nothing gets done.
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