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The rest of the girls wore smiles as fixed as their towering feather headdresses. I decided right then that onstage I would never smile unless I felt like it.

— Louise Brooks

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I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

Lulu in Hollywood (1982)

A well-dressed woman, even if her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away.

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

I was simply playing myself, which is the hardest thing in the world to do – if you know that it’s hard. I didn’t, so it seemed easy.

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