William Clark Gable

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Some of us, I know, like to tell white lies about our yesterdays. We romanticize our contemporaries—and give them a dimension they don’t deserve. But Clark Gable was all man—no myth created out of nostalgia. […] His manliness came out in so many ways—in the sudden eruption of boisterous laughter, in the capacity for competition, in the need for physical daring, in the total acceptance of life as tragedy and comedy, and in the exceptional ability to establish friendship beyond a thin smile and weak handshake. He had a zest for adventure that makes today’s obsession for easy-does-it security shameful. He was not afraid of life because he was too busy living.

Joan Crawford, 1967

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Bette Davis

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"It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people” - Bette Davis

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Postcards from Italy

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"When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead."
- Ernest Hemingway

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The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. – Nietzsche

Brigitte Bardot & Jean Gabin from En Cas de Malheur (1958)

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Natalie Wood

She was everything I was not. I was curvy, she was so tiny, like a bird. She was confident and I was so shy. She was the big star, I was the kid sister. But we loved each other so much. Nothing bad ever happened to Natalie. We would joke she was born under a lucky star.

- Lana Wood describing her sister Natalie

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John Barrymore

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. ~ John Barrymore

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John Barrymore

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A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. ~ John Barrymore

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Martin Luther King, Jr

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. 
-Martin Luther King, Jr

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Audrey Hepburn

Audrey was a lady with an elegance and charm that was unsurpassed, except by her love for underprivileged children all over the world. God has a most beautiful new angel now that will know just what to do in heaven.

—Elizabeth Taylor

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Johnny Cash

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Ah, I’d love to wear a rainbow every day,
And tell the world that everything’s OK,
But I’ll try to carry off a little darkness on my back,
‘Till things are brighter, I’m the Man In Black.

 —JOHNNY CASH  “MAN IN BLACK”

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Bettieism

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"I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn`t trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn`t think of myself as liberated, and I don`t believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn`t know any other way ..." - Bettie Page

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Hey! Careful man! There’s a beverage here!

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Lucille Ball

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I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it, and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.

— Lucille Ball

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Humphrey Bogart & Betty Bacall

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"I was Betty Bacall always. And Lauren was Howard Hawks... he felt that Lauren Bacall was better sounding than Betty Bacall. He had a vision of his own. He was a Svengali. He wanted to mold me. He wanted to control me. And he did until Mr. Bogart got involved." - Lauren Bacall

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)

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“We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.”

- Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)

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Shirley Temple

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“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.”

-Shirley Temple

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Magnificent Carlo Mollino !

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He was once credited as saying, "Everything is permissible as long as it is fantastic!" That credo was certainly reflected throughout his body of work. Mollino's architecture and furniture are famous for their ability to enable occupants to manipulate volumes at a whim.

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Johny Cash

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I learn from my mistakes. It`s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there`s no gain.

- JOHNNY CASH

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Bogart's Pandagate

On one occasion he and a friend bought two enormous stuffed panda bears and took them as their dates to El Morocco. They sat them in chairs at a table for four and when an ambitious young lady came over and touched Bogart’s bear, he shoved her away. ‘I’m a happily married man,’ he said, ‘and don’t touch my panda.’

The woman brought assault charges against him, and when asked if he was drunk at four o’clock in the morning, he replied, ‘Sure, isn’t everybody?’ (The judge ruled that since the panda was Bogart’s personal property, he could defend it.)”

-excerpted from Peter Bogdanovich’s Who the Hell’s In It

In a 1949 LA Times article about Pandagate, Bogart defended his drunken misbehavior on constitutional grounds: “So we get stiff once in a while. So we have a little fun. What’s wrong with that? This is a free country, isn’t it? I can take my panda any place I want to. And if I wanna buy it a drink, that’s my business.”  (quote via: Old Hollywood)

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