I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. … - Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Little Odessa. Of all my movies, it's the one that I still really love when I watch it and I'm pretty happy with what I didn in that.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.

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