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What is happiness? It depends on two assets, which fortunately I have. They are good health and a short memory.

— Ingrid Bergman The Real and the Unreal (1961)

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I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

It's not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

With Humphrey Bogart in 1942's Casablanca.

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