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In my lifetime I've been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture.
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
Stage Actor
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Huntsville
Alabama
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead
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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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Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.
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For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.
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I'm as pure as the driven slush.
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I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!
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If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
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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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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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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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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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Don't think this has taught me a lesson !
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