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Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead
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Tallulah Bankhead
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: January 31
Died: 1968
Died: December 12
Actress
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Huntsville
Alabama
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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In my lifetime I've been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture.
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Drink reacts on its practitioners in conflicting ways. One brave can knock off a quart of Scotch and look and act as sober as Herbert Hoover. Another, after three Martinis, makes two-cushion carroms off the chaise lounge as he attempts to negotiate the bathroom.
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I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
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I'm as pure as the driven slush.
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I have enemies I've never met - that's fame.
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Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.
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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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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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Don't think this has taught me a lesson !
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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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They aren't making mirrors like they use to.
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I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.
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There is less in this than meets the eye.
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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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I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!
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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.
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I have three phobias ...: I hate going to bed, get up and hate hate being alone.
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If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.
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