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" I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself. "
Karolyn Grimes
Never
Mom
Yourself
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" I started with the Target Company in 1993 when their Christmas theme that year was 'It's A Wonderful Life,' and they reunited the actors who played the Bailey kids. So we went all over and really had a blast getting the love from all of the fans and thought, 'Whoopty-doo, there's something going on here.' "
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" In all, I was in 16 movies, including 'The Bishop's Wife' with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven; I was in 'Rio Grande' with John Wayne, 'Albuquerque' with Randall Scott, 'Blue Skies' with Bing Crosby and 'Hans Christian Anderson' with Danny Kaye. "
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" I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies. "
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Work
Father
Job
" It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be. "
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You
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Want
" My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was 14. "
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Her
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She
" My Aunt Marsha ruled the family with a rod of iron. She was one wicked, mean woman. "
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Family
Mean
Aunt
" Everybody has some sorrow, worry, and everybody asks God for help. "
Karolyn Grimes
Sorrow
Help
God
" Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world. "
Karolyn Grimes
I Am
World
Happiness
" My mother died when I was 12, and right after, my dad died in a car crash. I was 15 and had no family. The court sent me to live with my uncle and aunt in Missouri. "
Karolyn Grimes
Me
Mother
Family
" With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City. "
Karolyn Grimes
Medical
School
City
" I was raising seven kids. I lived in the bedrooms, in the laundry room, in the kitchen, in the car - car pooling all over. I just didn't have time to sit down and watch a lot of TV. So I really didn't. "
Karolyn Grimes
Watch
Kitchen
Laundry
" I never wanted to return to Hollywood because Hollywood people and the fakeness - very artificial and not dear to my heart. After I lived in the Midwest, and I learned what sincere, real people were all about, I never wanted to go back. "
Karolyn Grimes
People
Real
Go
" My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15. "
Karolyn Grimes
My Life
Never
Age