"Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you."

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Elsie de Wolfe

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“There is great danger, yea, many times most danger, in the smallest sins... Greater sins do sooner startle the soul, and awaken and rouse up the soul to repentance, than lesser sins do. Little sins often slide into the soul, and breed, and work secretly and undiscernibly in the soul, till they come to be so strong, as to trample upon the soul and to cut the throat of the soul.”
“God, three weddings in one day, I'm going to be in Spanx for 12 hours. My elastic line is gonna get infected again.”
“What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.”
“Despite the variety of my explorations, throughout it all it has been my contention that my responsibility as an artist is to work, to sing for my supper, to make art, beautiful and powerful, that adds and reveals; to beautify the mess of a messy world, to heal the sick and feed the helpless; to shout bravely from the roof-tops and storm barricaded doors and voice the specifics of our historic moment.”
“Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.”
“I think we have a need to know what we do not need to know.”

Source : "On Language; CLASS CLEAVAGE" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. June 1, 1986.
“The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform.”
“The next day, we shot 'I Want You Back,' and that was a 14-hour day. That's typical. By the end of the day, my knees and ankles are killing me.”

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