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" From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture. "
Gloria Swanson
Moment
Picture
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" When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life. "
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" My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing. "
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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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" After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried. "
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" At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures. "
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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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" Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth. "
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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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Rest
" By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse. "
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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 consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so. "
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People
Fat
Time
" I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance. "
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Romantic
Married
Nothing
" The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish. "
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Me
Shifting
Sound
" 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
Most
" I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944. "
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About
Fanatic
" I am a very pragmatic person. "
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Very
Pragmatic
Am
" 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
" Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how. "
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Life And Death
Mixed
Death
" The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience. "
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Experience
Hunting
Time
" We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise. "
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Island
Paradise
Me
" Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common. "
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Tennessee
Things
Gifted
" I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents. "
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Babies
Sure
Parents
" Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him. "
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Money
Him
Artist
" I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair. "
Gloria Swanson
Behind
Hiding
Director
" The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do. "
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Pictures
Person
Never
" Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy. "
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Money
Only
You
" Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat. "
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Result
Eat
Body
" 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
" My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends. "
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Sculpture
Personal
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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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Publicity
Sunset
Me