Liz Smith
Liz Smith
Mary Elizabeth "Liz" Smithis an American gossip columnist. She is known as "The Grand Dame of Dish"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth2 February 1923
CityFort Worth, TX
CountryUnited States of America
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You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.
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Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
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All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.
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Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
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The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.
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One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.
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I thought Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were here dancing on black glass floors. And I thought everything was here. My idol, Walter Winchell was here.
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I was introduced to Sean Penn by a very famous Hollywood agent. He said, 'Sean, I'd like you to meet Liz Smith.' And Sean Penn looked at me, turned, ran down the hall and went -- left the building.
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He is going to start running my column, or a version of it, in September.
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We took all the technological know-how that we had and took all the things women complained about and married the two.
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Good gossip is just what's going on. Bad gossip is stuff that is salacious, mean, and bitchy; the kind most people really enjoy.
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which butchered my column. I feel like it never really appeared in L.A. before.
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No matter who you are or what you plan to do in life, learn to type!