American - Actress | October 10, 1900 - March 17, 1993
People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
Helen Hayes
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One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
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Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
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I'm a boss by nature. I'm bossy. I'm not imperious, but I don't really want people to curtsy low before me and back out of rooms, but I do like to run things.
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Stardom can be a gilded slavery.
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The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
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I cry out for order and find it only in art.
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I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.
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Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
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There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.
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The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.
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Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.
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