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My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
Vivien Leigh
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Vivien Leigh
Age: 53 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 5
Died: 1967
Died: July 8
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Darjeeling (India)
Vivien Leigh
Lady Olivier
Vivian Mary Hartley
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My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.
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I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
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Life is too short to work so hard.
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Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
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I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
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Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war. . . . If either of you boys says 'war' just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.
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My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.
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