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How can you close your eyes and say this has nothing to do with me? I'm not speaking about politics. Politics is a terrible thing. Everyone wants power.

— Luise Rainer

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The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.

I don’t believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my case also on screen, you have to be true.

For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me.

I was nobody to make a pass to. I was very thin like a boy and I was very un-sexy.

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Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality (1950)

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