"A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier."

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Source : "Dame Edith Evans, Ned's girl". Book by Bryan Forbes, Chapter 13, 1977.

Edith Evans

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“To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free.”
“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.”

Source : Life Magazine, May 9, 1969.
“Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“By learning to trust your intuition, miracles seem to happen. Intuitive thoughts are gifts from the higher self.”
“Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.”
“When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.”
“I've never bought a Dylan record. A singing poet? It just bores me to tears. I've got to tell you, if I had 10 Dylans in the final of 'American Idol,' we would not be getting 30 million viewers a week. I don't believe the Bob Dylans of this world would make 'American Idol 'a better show.”
“Marriage is only good for two things: tax breaks and adultery.”

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