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Mercedes Mccambridge

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    Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

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    A rich man can afford to be generous to many.

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    Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

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    At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.

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    Everything edible is fried in Texas! Or it is buried in the ground to cook before it is eaten. ... Texas food should be forbidden! 'The steaks at night are big and bright, deep in the heart of Texas!' And they are always afloat in grease. Next morning you are served a smaller steak, which serves as a platform for two fried eggs ... all of this afloat in the same grease! 'Chicken, you say? You bet! Comin' up!' Same grease! They are right. Comin' up! For hours afterwards. I couldn't believe the crust of an apple pie! Same grease!

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    I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me.

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    I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.

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    I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

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    I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years.

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    I can only know what love is insofar as I can feel it.

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    I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room

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    I don't think I should have been married... to anybody.

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    I don't think the Hollywood community is interested in what I can do. That's all right. I've never looked for a job in my life, and I'm not going to start now. I have plenty to keep me busy.

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    I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up and it was getting closer to my turn, I knew that when I got into the box I would lie! Again!

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    If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.

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    I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!

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    I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits

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    I have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport

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    I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue

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    I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker

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    I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.

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    I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me.

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    I think The Exorcist was the hardest work I've ever done

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    It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two

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    It is said that people learn to hate each other because of little things ... not big ones. I know I have always learned to love because of little things ... I'm not at all sure that there are any big ones.

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    I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it

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    Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.

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    Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

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    Most people call me Mercy. I like it

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    My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

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    My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.

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    My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?

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    My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.

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    My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

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    Neiman-Marcus is one thing, and the Dallas Cowboys are another.

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    Nobody understands that by the time the addiction has set in the alcoholic is mandated to drink ... he cannot not drink! Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, 'Jiminy Cricket, I feel sensational! My life is really in great shape! I think I'll become an alcoholic!' I firmly believe that when a shaking-to-pieces alcoholic says he needs a drink or he will die, he means it.

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    One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.

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    Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the characters who perform in them.

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    So many people have really wanted to die. They seem ashamed to say so. I think it would help if they would say so

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    The great people I've met always have time for the niceties.

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    the Irish ... are full of the fear of the Lord and the joy of living, and they don't know how to combine the two, but they'll sure have a good time trying.

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    There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it

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    While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

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    With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died

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    Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come.