Mercedes McCambridge quotes

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. (Mercedes McCambridge)
Neiman-Marcus is one thing, and the Dallas Cowboys are another. View quote
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I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room. View quote
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Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time. View quote
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Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come. View quote
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A rich man can afford to be generous to many. View quote
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I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight. View quote
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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. View quote
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If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation. (Mercedes McCambridge)
I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me. View quote
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My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless. View quote
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I can only know what love is insofar as I can feel it. View quote
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Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson. View quote
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I don't think I should have been married... to anybody. View quote
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My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe. View quote
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My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol. View quote
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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! View quote
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I am responsible for no one but myself. View quote
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Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting. (Mercedes McCambridge)
I was taught to be anti-Jewish. View quote
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I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony. View quote
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I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years. View quote
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I have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport. View quote
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