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" After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried. "
Where
Knew
Years
" All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year. "
Creative
California
Three
" All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in. "
Had
Watch
Roll
" As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation. "
Daddy
Said
Percent
" At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures. "
Victim
Rather
Pictures
" Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years. "
Like
Look
Care
" By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse. "
Mother
Turned
Real
" Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy. "
Money
Only
You
" From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture. "
Moment
Picture
Side
" I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes. "
Always
Order
Difficulties
" I am a very pragmatic person. "
Very
Pragmatic
Am
" I am big. It's the pictures that got small. "
Got
Small
Pictures
" I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944. "
Healthy
About
Fanatic
" I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so. "
People
Fat
Time
" I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again. "
Over
Life
Rest
" I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair. "
Behind
Hiding
Director
" I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients. "
Safe
Women
More
" I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents. "
Babies
Sure
Parents
" If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived. "
Years
Been
Failure
" I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille. "
Had
Successful
Six
" In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it. "
Over
Two
Most
" I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. "
Far
More
Thought
" I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford. "
Possible
Friend
Most
" I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance. "
Romantic
Married
Nothing
" I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European. "
Pictures
First
Marrying
" Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how. "
Life And Death
Mixed
Death
" 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. "
Talent
Person
Much
" 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. "
Yesterday
Today
Debt
" My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing. "
Look
Mother
Seeing
" My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends. "
Sculpture
Personal
Friends
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