People who are very beautiful make their own laws.

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I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things. I am a very impatient person and headstrong. If I've made up my mind to do something, I can't be persuaded out of it.

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A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.

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Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

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In Britain, an attractive woman is somehow suspect. If there is talent as well, it is overshadowed. Beauty and brains just can't be entertained; someone has been too extravagant. This does not happen in America or on the Continent, for the looks of a woman are considered a positive advertisement for her gifts and don't detract from them.

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I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.

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Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you.

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I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.

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I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.

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Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.

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