Because gold represents light to me. Gold and crystal. Because I need light for painting and I also need light to look. It's the most fascinating thing, how it changes.
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I think, 'What's goin... OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying. OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies... OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an ene... OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during 'Captain Blood.' I thought he was absolutely sm... OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That au... OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement. OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is ... OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless ho... OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news ... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes. MADAME DE STAEL Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them. MADAME DE STAEL That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself foun... MADAME DE STAEL Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it. MADAME DE STAEL