It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
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My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.
I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.
I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.
You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.
It's not the having, it's the getting.
When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Big girls need big diamonds.
I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.
Success is a great deodorant.
I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.
I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.
I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.
Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.
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