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" My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights? "
Mercedes McCambridge
Real
Never
Name
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" I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition. "
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" I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room. "
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" With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died. "
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" Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed. "
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" My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless. "
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" It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two. "
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" I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it. "
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" One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career. "
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" I was taught to be anti-Jewish. "
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" Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be. "
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" A rich man can afford to be generous to many. "
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" If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation. "
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" I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker. "
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" I have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport. "
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" Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting. "
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Many
" I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight. "
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" I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me. "
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" There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it. "
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Say
" I lose all control after two drinks of anything. "
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" Neiman-Marcus is one thing, and the Dallas Cowboys are another. "
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Thing
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" When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress. "
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Work
Progress
Nothing
" I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits. "
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Than
More
Trouble
" I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue. "
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Black
Blue
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" My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe. "
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