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I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.
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The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.
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I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.
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I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.
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Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
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I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.
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When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.
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Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.
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Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.
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I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.
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I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.
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I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.
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I simply did not want my face to be my talent.
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Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.
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In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening.
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There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.
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I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.
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I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.
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Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.
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In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.
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Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.
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What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.
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Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.
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Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.
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