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" I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy. "
Tab Hunter
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" I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste. "
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