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Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play.

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Vivien Leigh
Age: 53 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 5
Died: 1967
Died: July 8
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Film Actor
Film Actress
Stage Actor
Darjeeling (India)
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Lady Olivier
Vivian Mary Hartley
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Lady Olivier
Streetcar
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Having lost Rhett, she can always return to the land - to Tara, to soak up its strength. . . . Tara! . . . Home. I'll go home, and I'll think of some way to get him back! After all, tomorrow is another day!
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A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
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I'm not young. What's wrong with that?
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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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I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
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People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.
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I never sleep for more than five hours, hardly ever.
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You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.
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My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
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I always know my lines.
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English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
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Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
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On the road, they join the bedraggled remnants of a column of exhausted Confederate soldiers evacuating burning Atlanta. Rhett makes her take note of the scene: Take a good look, my dear. It's a historic moment. You can tell your grandchildren how you watched the Old South disappear one night.
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Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.
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I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things. I am a very impatient person and headstrong. If I've made up my mind to do something, I can't be persuaded out of it.
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Tired of all her efforts at Tara, Scarlett wishes to escape too: I do want to escape too! I'm so very tired of it all!. . . The South is dead, it's dead, the Yankees and the carpetbaggers have got it and there's nothing left for us.
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