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" After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried. "
Gloria Swanson
Where
Knew
Years
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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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" I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford. "
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" All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in. "
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" The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck. "
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" As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation. "
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" Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth. "
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" Nobody gets anything for nothing. "
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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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" Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years. "
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" I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents. "
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Sure
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" I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again. "
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" The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour. "
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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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Women
More
" I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair. "
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Behind
Hiding
Director
" The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish. "
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Shifting
Sound
" I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944. "
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About
Fanatic
" I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille. "
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Had
Successful
Six
" Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood. "
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Sunset
August
Best
" Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common. "
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Tennessee
Things
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" The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event. "
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First
Picture
Talking
" I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. "
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Far
More
Thought
" I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European. "
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Pictures
First
Marrying
" We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise. "
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Island
Paradise
Me
" If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived. "
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Years
Been
Failure
" When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life. "
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Private Life
Life
" All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year. "
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" I am big. It's the pictures that got small. "
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