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I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

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Elizabeth Taylor
Age: 79 †
Born: 1932
Born: February 27
Died: 2011
Died: March 23
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Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor
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Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor
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You can always avert throwing yourself in front of an oncoming train. There is something that just pulls you away - and it has pulled me away, because I'm not dead yet - just at the brink of impact. Sometimes I have been really grazed by that train.
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The ups and downs, the problems and stress, along with all the happiness, have given me optimism and hope because I am living proof of survival.
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The beauty of fragrance is that it speaks to your heart and hopefully someone else's.
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I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit
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[On Antony's death] Strange, there has never been... such a silence.
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I've never thought of my jewelry as trophies. I'm here to take care of it and to love it, for we are only temporary custodians of beauty.
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Just in case you get pneumonia or die. The dangerous bits are always the last days of shooting.
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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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What is a genius? What is a living legend? What is a megastar? Michael Jackson -- that's all. And when you think you know him, he gives you more. I think he is one of the finest people to hit this planet, and, in my estimation, he is the true King of Pop, Rock and Soul.
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My favorite name for a color is puce. It's kind of a dried blood color. It's a hideous color. But I love the word. It's so euphonic. But my favorite colors are lavender, purple, periwinkle blue, and white.
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Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.
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I love going to rock concerts, I love to lose myself in that vast wave of rhythm and body heat and get on the same vibe.
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I just loved the feeling of flying. I could jump six feet bareback and it was the closest thing to being Pegasus and flying next to God. It's the most liberating freedom-making feeling in the world.
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Seems like we always spend the best part of our time just saying goodbye.
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If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.
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I left home as soon as I could, when I was 18. I thought I was in love and got married - the press called it Prince Charming and Cinderella. He was a Hilton so I was the poor little Cinderella. And when I got a divorce nine months later I never told the court why, but he was cruel.
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