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Dagmar Godowsky
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“[When asked how many husbands she'd had:] Two of my own, my dear, and several of my friends'.”
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“[On Nijinksy:] Ah, he took my breath away! The body that man had, the controlled power, the iron fragility. He was a note of music. He was dance!”
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“In those days I was a slip of a thing with a divine figure and a face I was certain drove men wild. There is no doubt that I was the most conceited thing that ever lived. I simply adored Dagmar Godowsky and it was a passion that has withstood the test of time.”
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“Lazy people always work harder than anyone else; they're so eager to get through and lie down again.”
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“I always loved being with older people. Now they're so difficult to find.”
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“Bernice cried at funerals. She had specified rates. For five dollars she was miserably unhappy. For ten, she cried. And for fifteen, she became hysterical.”
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“Too late! The two saddest words in any tongue.”
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“[On Rachmaninoff:] He was the most Russian of them all, like a cathedral in the snow. Holy, wintry, infinite, he was all the Russias.”
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“[On the 1920s:] Hollywood was Grover's Corners compared with New York. The whole town had the DTs. Every boy had a flask at his hip and every girl a waist at her knees.”
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“I've always burned my bridges before me.”
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“France! Such a beautiful word for such a beautiful country. The only place in the world where a little baby I knew could have a birth certificate that read 'Mother unknown.'”
Dagmar Godowsky, U.S. actor
(1897 - 1975)