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" I think taking care of yourself, health-wise, in every way, is a 100 percent winner. "
Elaine Stritch
Think
Winner
Yourself
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" These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what 'technique' means. But I do know what experience is. "
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" You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie. "
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" I care about money, very much. I want it. I don't ever want to be without it. My mother once said about me, 'Elaine has to have money.' "
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" I could have made a lot of money doing 'Golden Girls,' and I would have been good. But the image of it! And for me to work with Betty White every day would be like taking cyanide. "
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" I'm funny when I want to be. And I'm even funny when I don't want to be. "
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" There's something about it that makes sense, Lent. You give something up, and everything's more joyful. "
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" My biggest dream was to get out of Michigan - to discover life beyond the Sacred Heart Convent. "
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" I always say, 'If you can't give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don't have the comic slide over it.' Do you understand what I mean? First explain how the banana peel got there quickly. And then there's a reason for all the comedy. "
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" I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired. "
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" I think it's the wrong way around to say, 'When you get older move to the country.' I think when you get older you move to New York. "
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" Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease. "
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" Fans recognize me all over the place. But the second you need anything, they're never around! They're like the police! "
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" I'm a hotel baby, absolutely: it's hard to think of a hotel I haven't stayed in. "
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" If I see a great performance on television, onstage, in the movies, I go to work the next day with a renewed energy and less fear. These great artists take me out of my life and make me want to go there. "
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" I love New York. I went to New York to become an actress, and I did it. And I won all the awards known to man. And I'm happy. And I came home. I came, I saw, I conquered. And it feels great. "
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" You never know what is happening to yourself when it is happening. "
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