Gene Tierney Quotes

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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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My throttle was wide open. I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

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About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

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Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

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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 used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

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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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Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

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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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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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Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

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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 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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I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.

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We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

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A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

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I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.

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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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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 was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.

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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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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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I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.

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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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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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