"I had highfalutin ideas about being a serious actress when I was 16, 17, and first signed at Universal. I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff."

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Source : "Piper Laurie White Christmas" by Edvins Beitiks, www.sfgate.com. December 17, 1998.

Piper Laurie

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“In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now an open book.”
“The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all .”
“Gypsy [Rose Lee] wasn't a linear person, and she didn't live life in a linear fashion. She was relentlessly self-inventing, and moved backward as often as she moved forward.”

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“To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.”
“I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.”
“The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.”
“You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.”
“As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.”

Source : David Graeber (2014). “Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years”, p.505, Melville House

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