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I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.


Helen Mirren

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HELEN ROWLAND What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
HELEN KELLER My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was ...
HELEN KELLER Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have live...
HELEN KELLER As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens th...
HELEN KELLER Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
HELEN KELLER If you rest, you rust.
HELEN HAYES