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They say it's the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me, I just wanna live a life I'm gonna remember even if I don't write it down.
Tallulah Bankhead
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Tallulah Bankhead
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: January 31
Died: 1968
Died: December 12
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Tallulah Brockman Bankhead
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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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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If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.
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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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Don't think this has taught me a lesson !
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I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.
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No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.
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It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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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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I'm as pure as the driven slush.
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I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!
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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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A Republican. A Republican. That's worse than being a goddamned Communist!
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If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
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[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.
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I have enemies I've never met - that's fame.
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Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.
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