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I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

Tallulah Bankhead

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Tallulah Bankhead
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: January 31
Died: 1968
Died: December 12
Actress
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Huntsville
Alabama
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead
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Many
Things
Never
Intelligent
Intellectual

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A Republican. A Republican. That's worse than being a goddamned Communist!
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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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In my lifetime I've been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture.
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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 read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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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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