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" My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends. "
Gloria Swanson
Sculpture
Personal
Friends
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" I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance. "
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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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" The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience. "
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" I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. "
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" Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat. "
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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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" I am big. It's the pictures that got small. "
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" If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived. "
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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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" I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford. "
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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
" We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise. "
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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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Private Life
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" The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish. "
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Me
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Sound
" As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation. "
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Daddy
Said
Percent
" I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944. "
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Healthy
About
Fanatic
" I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European. "
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Pictures
First
Marrying
" All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in. "
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Had
Watch
Roll
" There was no place at all for me in my father's military world. "
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Me
Military
Place
" 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
" 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 entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients. "
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Safe
Women
More
" By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse. "
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Mother
Turned
Real
" I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again. "
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Over
Life
Rest
" 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
" I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair. "
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Behind
Hiding
Director
" 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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Two
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" Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how. "
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Mixed
Death
" I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents. "
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