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“I live in L.A., I go on tour all the time, I'm in New York half the year - it's very hard to be in a relationship.”
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“Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, fellow members of the motion picture industry and honored guests: This is one of the happiest moments of my life, and I want to thank each one of you who had a part in selecting me for one of their awards, for your kindness. It has made me feel very, very humble; and I shall always hold it as a beacon for anything that I may be able to do in the future. I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry. My heart is too full to tell you just how I feel, and may I say thank you and God bless you.”
Source : Hattie McDaniel's Academy Awards acceptance speech for "Actress in a Supporting Role" Award for the film "Gone with the Wind", aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 29, 1940. 
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“Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss”
Source : Helen Fielding (2016). “Bridget Jones's Diary: Picador Classic”, p.121, Pan Macmillan
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“No brain is stronger than its weakest think.”
Source : "Laughs: A Sovereign Remedy for Boredom". Book by Thomas Lansing Masson, p. 167, 1926.
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“My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis.”
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“We've all fallen, but at the same time we're not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again.”
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“Don't worry about making friends; don't worry about making enemies. Worry about winning, because if you win, your enemies can't hurt you, and if you lose, your friends can't stand you.”
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“There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.”
