Mercedes McCambridge Quotes
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I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker
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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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Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.
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Like so many other recovered alcoholics, I am to this day bewildered that it took so long for me to understand that there was no such animal as 'social drinking' for me; that it had nothing to do with my willpower or self-respect or moral fiber, that it was a simple biochemical intolerance to a drug.
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Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.
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Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come.
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My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.
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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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I don't think I should have been married... to anybody.
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The great people I've met always have time for the niceties.
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With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died
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Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.
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Neiman-Marcus is one thing, and the Dallas Cowboys are another.
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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 have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport
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I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me.
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Most people call me Mercy. I like it
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A rich man can afford to be generous to many.
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I think The Exorcist was the hardest work I've ever done
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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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I can only know what love is insofar as I can feel it.
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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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I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.
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I am responsible for no one but myself.
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I lose all control after two drinks of anything
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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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My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?
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I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits
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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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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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