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[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.
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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If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.
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I have enemies I've never met - that's fame.
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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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Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
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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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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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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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Don't think this has taught me a lesson !
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