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Lillian Gish
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“What you get is a living — what you give is a life.”
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“A happy life is one spent in learning, earning and yearning.”
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“Hollywood — an emotional Detroit.”
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“The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.”
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“You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.”
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“You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.”
Lillian Gish, U.S. actor
(1893 - 1993)