"The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me.……" — Elaine Dundy
"The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were they, and what would I do with them, and how much were they going to get in my way?"
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Elaine Dundy
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15 Quotes by Elaine Dundy
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I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and…
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I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.
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Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
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I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up.
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That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old…
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I don't always understand other people's motives. I will repeat that for my own benefit, if you don't mind. I…
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I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.
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What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.
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The world is wide, wide, wide, and I am young, young, young, and we’re all going to live forever!
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A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.
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Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.
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[W]hat is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either…
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