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I have enemies I've never met - that's fame.
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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Film Actor
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Huntsville
Alabama
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
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I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!
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Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.
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Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
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In my lifetime I've been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture.
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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'm as pure as the driven slush.
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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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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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A Republican. A Republican. That's worse than being a goddamned Communist!
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I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.
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I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.
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