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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
Tallulah Bankhead
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Tallulah Bankhead
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: January 31
Died: 1968
Died: December 12
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Huntsville
Alabama
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead
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Don't think this has taught me a lesson !
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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