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" If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived. "
Gloria Swanson
Years
Been
Failure
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" The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life. "
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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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" By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse. "
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" 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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" All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year. "
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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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" From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture. "
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" As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation. "
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" Nobody gets anything for nothing. "
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" I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents. "
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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 was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance. "
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" I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes. "
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" Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how. "
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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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Life
Rest
" My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends. "
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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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Look
Mother
Seeing
" I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944. "
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Healthy
About
Fanatic
" One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me. "
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Care
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" 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
" The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish. "
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" There was no place at all for me in my father's military world. "
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Military
Place
" 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. "
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Talent
Person
Much
" 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'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
" The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck. "
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Goes
Age
First
" The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event. "
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