Top 49 Elaine Dundy Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Elaine Dundy

#1. But what the hell, I told myself, it wasn't as if I were one of them or even competing with them, for heaven's sake, I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life. The scientist dropping into the zoo at feeding time. That is what I told myself.

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#2. What's the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it's over.

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#3. I'm a real phony, one of those half-baked hot-house plants we're growing nowadays, instead of the honest-to-God two-fisted women we should be ...

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#4. It's just that I know the world is so wide and full of people and exciting things that I just go crazy every day stuck in these institutions. I mean if I don't get started soon, how will I get the chance to sharpen my wits? It takes lots of training. You have to start very young.

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#5. The sensation of being so close to another human being with whom I had not one single sensation in common left me speechless.

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#6. If the recently graduated college alumna can't turn her trained brain to some intelligent awareness of our responsibilities in World Affairs, we're going to foul up our leadership like England did, as sure as God made little green apples.

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#7. A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.

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#8. For someone who likes to get around as much as I do, I really travel quite badly. Planes frighten me, boats bore me, trains make me dirty, cars make me car-sick. And practically nothing can equal the critical dismay with which I first greet the sight of new places.

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#9. To me Vivien Leigh was a tragic heroine of classic proportions: chosen, blessed and abandoned by the gods. Obstinately she tried to control and defy her destiny and to know her story is to be inspired by pity and terror.

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#10. Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.

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#11. That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.

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#12. I love you. If you hadn't existed I would have had to invent you.

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#13. [T]wo Americans re-encountering each other after a certain time in a foreign land are supposed to clamber up their nearest lampposts and wait tremblingly for it all to blow over.

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#14. To find someone to giggle with I place just below finding someone to flirt with and just above the ability to knit. Those are the only three things to do while waiting to go on.

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#15. He looked so - what was it that gave him his irresistible charm? He looked so accessible. That was it. A great simple truth struck me with surprise: charm is availability.

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#16. ... I looked at those patient huddlers on the [Embassy] benches who had hardly moved, and a horrible irony hit me: they wanted so badly to get into the States; I wanted so badly to stay out.

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#17. It's amazing how right you can be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.

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#18. Now called for something drastically un-running away. Now called for
what? Suddenly I had it. Now called for being a librarian! (
Sally Jay Gorce)

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#19. The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were they, and what would I do with them, and how much were they going to get in my way?

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#20. It seems to me they're not really happy unless they're at the same time on public display and at their worst.

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#21. He tried to kiss me. One of the few things that had impressed me in college was a Southern girl's account o how she avoided being kissed on the doorstep of her house once by wearing a flower in her hair and sticking it in her mouth when she said good night. Only I had no flower.

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#22. That's the story of my life. Someone's behavior strikesme as a bit odd and the next thing I know all hell breaks loose.

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#23. I had nothing better to do, had I, except recount my money and repaint my finger-nails and die of frustration?

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#24. Fate was playing my hand for me and for once in my life I knew better than not to go ahead and let it.

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#25. He hated so many people I hardly know anyone any more

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#26. I thought of sex and sin; of my body and all the men in the world who would never sleep with it.

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#27. I reflected wearily that it was not easy to be a Woman in these stirring times. I said it then and I say it now: it just isn't our century.

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#28. I only did it,' I said, 'now this is going to be the truth, Teddy, I only did it because it seemed to be the glamorous thing to do at the time. It was my ideal of glamour.

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#29. To accuse the American male of not bathing in Paris is merely to flatter him.

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#30. I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.

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#31. I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.

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#32. I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up.

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#33. I've never wanted to meet anyone I've been introduced to. I want to meet all the other people.

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#34. No matter what you do you've got to try to do it well. Otherwise, it's unbearable.

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#35. I mean if I don't get started soon, how will I get the chance to sharpen my wits? It takes alot of training.

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#36. I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

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#37. You're not playing the game," he said grimly. "English gossip isn't supposed to get back to the person it's about.

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#38. [T]he question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

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#39. Frequently, walking down the streets in Paris alone, I've suddenly come upon myself in a store window grinning foolishly away at the thought that no one in the world knew where I was at just that moment.

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#40. It was one of those nights when the air is blood-temperature and it's impossible to tell where you leave off and it begins.

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#41. Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

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#42. I don't always understand other people's motives. I will repeat that for my own benefit, if you don't mind. I don't always understand other people's motives.

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#43. I imagined there must be hundreds and thousands and millions of people quiet in the dark out there, waiting with baited breath for me, up on that stage and bathed in colored lights, to say something. I opened my mouth and - hooray - they were going to listen.

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