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“It's all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Kindness #Positivity #Connections
“I have never felt more alive than when I watched my children delight in something, never more alive than when I have watched a great artist perform, and never richer than when I have scored a big check to fight AIDS.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Children #Fighting #Artist
“Put on some lipstick and pull yourself together.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Together #Lipstick
“I was so strictly brought up that the only time I could get away would be on my own pony. I could ride wherever I wanted on my godfather's estate in Kent.I wasn't brought up to be afraid of anything.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Would Be #Ponies #Estates
“You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That's how I've done it. There's no other way.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Inspiring #Beautiful #Fighting
“The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Mother #Passion #Important
“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Inspirational #Book #Beer
“I always wanted to have a fragrance, and I always wanted to be able to connect with people in ways other than through film.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#People #Able #Way
“It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Inspirational #Patience #Time
“Acting is fun. It's not my whole life. It's not my entire being. It's secondary to my life. My life is primary. I'm running in the primary, as you know.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Running #Fun #Acting
“There has never been such a silence.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Death #Silence
“To me, acting is a matter of absolute concentration. You can laugh and giggle with your friends up to the minute the director says, "Action!" Then you snap your mind into shape and into the character that you're playing and relate to the people that you're acting with and forget everybody else that you've been joking with.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Character #People #Laughing
“All of my life I've spent a lot of time with gay men - Montgomery Clift, Jimmy Dean, Rock Hudson - who are my colleagues, coworkers, confidantes, my closest friends, but I never thought of who they slept with! They were just the people I loved. I could never understand why they couldn't be afforded the same rights and protections as all of the rest of us. There is no gay agenda, it's a human agenda”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Gay #Men #Rights
“I've always sung in the shower. Now I make the stage a mental shower in order not to get too uptight and enjoy it.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Order #Uptight #Stage
“I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Adventure #Doors #Looks
“It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Gymnastics #Want #Force
“You can be fat and still be sexy . It all depends on how you feel about yourself”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Sexy #Clever #How You Feel
“I just loved the feeling of flying. I could jump six feet bareback and it was the closest thing to being Pegasus and flying next to God. It's the most liberating freedom-making feeling in the world.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Feet #Flying #Feelings
“Money is the best deodorant.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Money #Deodorant
“I left home as soon as I could, when I was 18. I thought I was in love and got married - the press called it Prince Charming and Cinderella. He was a Hilton so I was the poor little Cinderella. And when I got a divorce nine months later I never told the court why, but he was cruel.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Divorce #Home #Months
“My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Mother #Eye #Eight
“I would totally lose myself in the music and be a gypsy. I would go wherever I wanted to in my head - wherever the music took me. My body followed.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Body #Gypsy #Wanted
“On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Children #Thinking #Childhood
“I want it all quickly 'cause I don't want God to stop and think and wonder if I'm getting more than my share.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Thinking #Want #Causes
“It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Ignorance #People #Dying
“I believe in mind over matter and doing anything you set your mind on.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Believe #Mind #Matter
“Being able to go on location and see the world was the greatest perk of all.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Goes On #World #Able
“You are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Helping Others #World #Who You Are
“Just in case you get pneumonia or die. The dangerous bits are always the last days of shooting.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Pneumonia #Shooting #Lasts
“Everything makes me nervous - except making films.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Movie #Gambling #Film

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