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" All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in. "
Gloria Swanson
Had
Watch
Roll
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" There was no place at all for me in my father's military world. "
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" In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it. "
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" Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common. "
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" I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance. "
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" I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients. "
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" The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners. "
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" I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European. "
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" Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent. "
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" I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille. "
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Six
" The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event. "
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" My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell. "
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Yesterday
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Debt
" The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish. "
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" I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford. "
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Friend
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" As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation. "
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Daddy
Said
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" After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried. "
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" The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life. "
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My Life
Life
" I am big. It's the pictures that got small. "
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Got
Small
Pictures
" I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again. "
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" We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise. "
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