"You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good."

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Source : "Farewell Falwell" by Tim Footman, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2007.

Bette Davis

“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”
“I am very much a scientist, and so I naturally have thought about religion also through the eyes of a scientist. When I do that, I see religion not denominationally, but in a more, let us say, deistic sense. I have been influence in my thinking by the writing of Einstein who has made remarks to the effect that when he contemplated the world he sensed an underlying Force much greater than any human force. I feel very much the same. There is a sense of awe, a sense of reverence, and a sense of great mystery.”
“All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.”
“I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.”
“The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn't got all of this facade, this veneer of what we call adult culture. It's rather simple, rather childish It is direct and free.”

Source : Milton H. Erickson (1992). “The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy”, p.79, Ardent Media
“I mean, people don't know what race I am. They never know if I'm Hawaiian or Italian or Mexican or Spanish or white. I could play Jewish, I could play anything.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What is desire?-- The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire.”
“No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.”

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