I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.

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Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

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All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

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My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

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My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.

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I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

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The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.

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I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.

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When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

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One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me.

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