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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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I have three phobias ...: I hate going to bed, get up and hate hate being alone.
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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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I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
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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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If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.
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I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.
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I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
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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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If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
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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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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 have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!
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