Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.
- Mercedes McCambridge Quote

Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.
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At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.
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I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me.
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I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.
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I can only know what love is insofar as I can feel it.
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I don't think I should have been married... to anybody.
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I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!
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I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits.
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I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue.
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I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker.
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I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me.
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I was taught to be anti-Jewish.
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I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!
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I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.
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If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.
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Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.
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Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.
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My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.
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My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?
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My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.
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Neiman-Marcus is one thing, and the Dallas Cowboys are another.
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Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.
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The great people I've met always have time for the niceties.
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When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.
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With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died.
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