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It's the good girls who keep diaries the bad girls never have the time.
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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Do you know what my ambition is in life? To be without ambition. As far back as I can remember I've been absolutely hag-ridden. I'd like to attain the state of mind that the Indians call Nirvana. That, for me, would happen if I were free of ambition.
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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In my lifetime I've been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture.
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Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
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Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
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Acting is a form of confession.
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I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.'
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I have three phobias ...: I hate going to bed, get up and hate hate being alone.
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I'm as pure as the driven slush.
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My progress reminded me of the horses in The Whip. They raced at the limit of their speed directly toward the audience. But they raced on a treadmill which canceled out their progress.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
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There is less in this than meets the eye.
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Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.
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I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.
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