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" By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light. "
Light
Time
Night
" Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid. "
First
Clark Gable
Me
" Critics established a snobbery toward me. "
Critics
Snobbery
Me
" Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal. "
About
Almost
Everything
" I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies. "
See
Swimming
How
" I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood. "
Hollywood
Took
Would
" I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did. "
Gave
Really
True
" I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time. "
Thought
New York
Feet
" I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you. "
Remember
You
Walk
" It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious. "
Water
Me
Audience
" I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know. "
Women
Think
People
" I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime. "
Cost
Swim
Pool
" I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers. "
Daily
Swim
Pool
" I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage. "
Strong
Me
Football
" I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit. "
Never
Suit
Movies
" Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues. "
Sports
Three
Life
" Once I married Fernando, I became invisible. "
Once
Married
Invisible
" Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool. "
Pool
Character
Girl
" The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it. "
Useless
Wisdom
Time
" Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world. "
News
Gold
Events
" Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home. "
Me
World
Swimming
" We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one. "
Medals
Olympic
Won
" What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things. "
Health
Things
Two
" When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again. "
Sight
Feeling
People
" Which Esther Williams do you want to hear about? "
About
Hear
Which
" Widowhood had done nothing to curb my smart mouth. So much for diplomacy. "
Mouth
Done
Nothing
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