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My throttle was wide open. I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.
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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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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 have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.
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Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.
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When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I saw things no one else could see. I could see evil in a toothbrush. I could see God in a light bulb.
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Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.
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Nothing strengthens a woman's determination to be in love quite so much as being told that she cannot.
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I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My own mother was my darling.
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I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?
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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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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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I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.
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Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.
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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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My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.
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Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.
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The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.
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There are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.
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I had been introduced to psychotherapy, in which the doctors let you talk, talk, talk, until you find the source of your problem or find another doctor.
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Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.
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I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.
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I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.
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My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still arguing about money.
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I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.
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In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.
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We Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job.
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A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.
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Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.
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Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.
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Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
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Gene Tierney
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Born:
November 19, 1920
Died:
November 6, 1991
(aged 70)
Bio:
Gene Eliza Tierney was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed as a great beauty, she became established as a leading lady.
Known for:
Laura (1944)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
The Razor's Edge (1946)
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