[The Victor Fleming-directed Gone With the Wind was originally marketed with the tagline] The most magnificent picture ever. ... Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.
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Related Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a h... MARGARET MITCHELL Why be an ostrich? MARGARET MITCHELL Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan... MARGARET MITCHELL Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin gold-fish bowls filled to the brim with the cleare... MARGARET MITCHELL Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar. MARGARET MITCHELL Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin goldfish bowls filled to the brim with the cleares... MARGARET MITCHELL I told you once before that there were two times for making big money, one in the up-building of a c... MARGARET MITCHELL Depending on your point of view, Ashley (or Leslie Howard) was sensitive, poetic, and enigmatic-- or... MOLLY HASKELL Longing hearts could only stand so much longing. MARGARET MITCHELL Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ... MARGARET MITCHELL I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I ad... MARGARET MITCHELL They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excite... MARGARET MITCHELL When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'... RACHEL COHN It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart ar... KAREN MARIE MONING 'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With Th... RANBIR KAPOOR I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like th... OCTAVIA SPENCER 'Anchorman' is my favorite movie of all time and Ron Burgundy is one of my favorite characte... EVA MENDES The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind. BEN STEIN Frankly my dear I don't give a damn. CLARK GABLE Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn (Clark Gable) RHETT BUTLER Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn about anyone else L.J. SMITH All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and ra... OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all t... STEPHENIE MEYER Suddenly she hated them all because they were different from her, because they carried their losses ... MARGARET MITCHELL All day long you sit and sew, Stitch life down for fear it grow, Stitch life down fo... EDITH SITWELL If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.' VIN DIESEL I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind. GLENN CLOSE I wanted to be like Vivien Leigh in 'Gone With the Wind.' I wanted to have black hair, green... TERRY FARRELL You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would ha... KELLY LYNCH Clark Gable was always Clark Gable. Today if they were casting Gone With the Wind, Rhett Butler woul... RICH LITTLE War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and s... MARGARET MITCHELL Rossella, non ho mai avuto la pazienza di raccogliere i frammenti di un oggetto rotto per incollarli... MARGARET MITCHELL Water flows because it's willing. MARTY RUBIN Go with the flow even if there are rapids ahead. JIM GENOVESE Don't resist life, flow with it. JIM GENOVESE Life is more like dancing than wrestling if you follow its rhythm. JIM GENOVESE The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic. SEBASTIAN HORSLEY When people say what is 'Gone With the Wind' about, they say it's a love story between R... DONALD MCCAIG I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind... KARIN SLAUGHTER That's a powerful lucky rabbit's foot. I got the part in Gone With the Wind because of it. I... HATTIE MCDANIEL Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE I like to not have to be 'on' for anybody. INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE The Legend of Zorro, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis, Louis, Louis...Stil whining, Louis! Are you quite finished? I've had to listen to that for ce... INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis: I'm flesh and blood, but not human. I haven't been human for two hundred years. INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will ... INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE ...and frankly speaking, I don't give a damn. YUVIKA MATHUR -GONE WITH THE TIME. I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a... PAT CONROY Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit t... EMILY GIFFIN O full and splendid Moon, whom I Have, from this desk, seen climb the sky So many a midnig... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me. DAVID HASSELHOFF Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now. FREDERICK DODSON There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', tha... TATIANA DE ROSNAY My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.'... DOLLY PARTON The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS My dear, I don't give a damn. MARGARET MITCHELL That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored. HANNAH GADSBY The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard. DAVID GERROLD The problem with prototypes is they don't always work. LAURIE ANDERSON I just never thought I'd get to see how beautiful you'd become JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT You're beautiful, too. I mean, you're hot,” I blurted out. “But I always knew you would be.” m... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. ... EUGENE H. PETERSON You have to ignore risks, put your brain on hold and follow your instincts, even when your head insi... DARREN SHAN Children are like water; they don't much care where the stream takes them. They do nothing to avoid ... NILESH RATHOD 'The Birth of a Nation' occupies a view of the South not far from Scarlett O'Hara's ... RICHARD CORLISS When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to be... PAT CONROY If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control. D. B. SWEENEY To have a philosophical view on what time is, we would have to go outside the box and look at the bi... GARY F EVANS... Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different tim... MARGARET ATWOOD No piensas en mí como yo en ti. No me importa. Pero si también tienes frío, podrías acercarte y ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I feel like if you're a girl in the South, you know 'Gone with the Wind' better than any... LESLIE BIBB The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present. BILL WATTERSON The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit. DAVID LEE ROTH Taking the path of least resistance is always helpful and peaceful, which is always in line with you... HINA HASHMI Taking the path of least resistance is always helpful and peaceful, which is always in line with you... HINA HASHMI And do I ask, wherefore my heart Falters, oppressed with unknown needs? Why some inexpli... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willing... J.G. BALLARD She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get... RUDOLPH DELSON I was particularly stunned by the casting of [Tom] Cruise, who is no more my Vampire LeStat than Edw... ANNE RICE I love being as bad as possible! You've got to love a bad girl. Look at 'Gone With the Wind,... KATIE MCGRATH J. K. Rowling's first 'Harry Potter' manuscript was rejected 12 times. Stephen King'... ASHWIN SANGHI Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. G... MARGARET MITCHELL My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business" - Rhet... MARGARET MITCHELL The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER Si miramos el fuego es porque parpadea, porque resplandece. Lo que atrae nuestra mirada es la luz, p... PATRICK ROTHFUSS It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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