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There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming.

Am Definitely Designed Dreaming
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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Friends Go Others People
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If anything, my mother taught me how to sur-thrive. That's my word for it.

Anything How Me Mother
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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Alone Frame Habit Human
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My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well.

Elbows Enjoyed Father He
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Happiness is the ability to recognize it.
Happiness Ability Recognize
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Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Art Human Human Nature Like
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Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.

Area Because Drag Get
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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

About Compared Could Friendly
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Actions lie louder than words.

Actions Lie Louder Words
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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Arranged Beginning Consciousness End
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Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.

After Along Cooked Females
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Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
Advice One Things Blessed
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A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

About Curtain Draw Essay
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There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'

Might Nap No Point Now
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My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Always Brain Buried Diving
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Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.

Capital English English Language Language
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I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

Fond Achieving Striving Theories
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Eyes Others Our Prisons
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I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright.

Act Doing Fright Had
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Best Creating Finding Following
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A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Right Moment Better Cleverness
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Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Boredom Kingdom Legitimate Philanthropic
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Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itself.

Care Take Common Sense
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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Body Essence Gives His
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

Body Evening His Legs
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I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.

Cookie Did Even Existed
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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

Depend Father Form Less
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Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

Patriotism Multitude Sins
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I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.

Enjoy Fun Idea Jobs
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It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

Any Believed Could Curious
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One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.
One Principles Perseverance Stop
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I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.

Am Celebrities Hollywood I Am
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It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Age Deaths Diseases Laugh
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In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day.

America Brad Brad Pitt Covers
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Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
Deplorable Joy Life Sleep
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My parents had this incredibly vital relationship with an audience, like muscle with blood. This was the main competition I had for my parents' attention: an audience.

Attention Audience Blood Competition
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This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Agree Always Ask Courage
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I'm in a business where the only thing that matters is weight and appearance. That is so messed up. They might as well say 'Get younger,' because that's how easy it is.

Appearance Because Business Easy
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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Against Bags Business Current
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We treat beauty like an accomplishment, and that is insane. Everyone in L.A. says, 'Oh, you look good,' and you listen for them to say you've lost weight. It's never 'How are you?' or 'You seem happy!'

Accomplishment Beauty Everyone Good
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The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

Between Clothes Connection Dress
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

Anonymity Completeness Like Often
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Fiction Her Money Must
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.

About AllDay Day He
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
Homesick Places Never Known
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Mind Richly Tapestry Distilled
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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Becomes Enough Lie Often
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

Live People Create Made
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Beauty without expression is boring.

Beauty Boring Expression Without
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