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It's getting increasingly difficult to be a dreamer under any circumstances.

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Black filmmakers - I'm grateful for them.

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The white actresses I have known have been allowed to do 10 times more than I shall ever do.

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I don't remember, as a child, feeling a lack of anything.

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Before I latched onto the concept of stereotypes, not once did I reckon with the fact that I would never be a 'Hollywood starlet.'

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Marriage is more complex than we think.

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Just staying together is not a real virtue, if you're not happy. Or you're being denied. Or one person is being squashed. Or you really don't love each other; you're just there out of habit. That doesn't work, no matter how many years you stay together.

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I think the poets and musicians, they belong to everybody.

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You hear people say, 'We take our Tennessee Williams very seriously. There is no laughter here.' It's full of humor! Not to laugh is a big, bad mistake!

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: October 27th, 1924

Died: June 11th, 2014

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