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All Quotes by author - Gene Tierney

" Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses. "

" Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test. "

" Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems. "

" Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator. "

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

" I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions. "

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

" I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I used up every cent I earned as an actress. "

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

" Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties. "

" Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides. "

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

" There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day. "

" Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain. "

" Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese. "

" Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish. "

" Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie. "

" Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful. "

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

" 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. "

" When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term. "

" When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb. "

" 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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