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I am going to post one entry from Marlene Dietrich's ABC* every day, because Dietrich. #DietrichABC
* I have the revised edition
* I have the revised edition
"Arrogance: On some people it looks good." #DietrichABC
"Baby: The all-important. The wonder. The never-disappointing. The reason for enduring anything and everything. Living confidence. The epitome of trust. A fragile, helpless Hercules" #DietrichABC
“Dietrich: In the German language: the name for a key that opens all locks. Not a magic key. A very real object, necessitating great skill in the making.” #DietrichABC
“Extravagant: It is a completely subjective valuation and therefore one should never criticise another person’s extravagance.” #DietrichABC
“Fashion: Don’t follow it blindly into every dark alley. Always remember that you are not a model or a mannequin for which the fashion is created.” #DietrichABC
“Gabin, Jean: A magnificent actor without knowing the tools of the trade. Rough outside – tender inside. Easy to love!” #DietrichABC
“Hitchcock, Alfred: When he directed it seemed as if he didn’t. But he did, he did, and how he did!” #DietrichABC
“Ideals: We need ideals, not competition, to be a well-functioning nation.” #DietrichABC
“Joie de vivre: How few of us have it; and what a great gift for the person who has it and the people who witness it.” #DietrichABC
“Kisses: Don’t waste them. But don’t count them.” #DietrichABC
“Lukewarm: When this adjective applies to feelings, stop feeling whatever you are feeling.” #DietrichABC
“Music: How little time we working people have to listen to music, and what a loss this represents to our souls and our nervous systems.” #DietrichABC
“Nakedness: Easy for the beautiful, difficult for the ugly.” #DietrichABC
“Optimism: Have it. There is always time to cry later.” #DietrichABC
“Piano: A home without a piano is waiting for something.” #DietrichABC
“Queen: Being a queen must entail enormous minuses and very few pluses.” #DietrichABC
“Roses: I like them best freshly cut from the garden. The blonde ones with the tender, drooping stems smell as a rose should smell.” #DietrichABC
“Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.” #DietrichABC
“Tilly, Vesta: It has often been written that I was the first performer to wear top hat and tails on the stage. Vesta Tilly and Ella Shields did it first years and years before me.” #DietrichABC
“Unmade bed: A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.” #DietrichABC
“Violin: The symbol of my broken dream.” #DietrichABC
