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If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.
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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I'm as pure as the driven slush.
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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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A Republican. A Republican. That's worse than being a goddamned Communist!
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Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.
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They aren't making mirrors like they use to.
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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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