Gene Tierney Quotes
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I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
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I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.
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I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.
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Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.
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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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Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.
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Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.
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In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.
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The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.
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Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.
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The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.
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I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.
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I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.
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Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.
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I always tried to play my hunches.
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I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.
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It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.
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Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.
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My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.