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" The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish. "
Gloria Swanson
Me
Shifting
Sound
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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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" My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends. "
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Personal
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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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Fat
Time
" I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents. "
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Sure
Parents
" I am a very pragmatic person. "
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Pragmatic
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" 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
Depressed
" I am big. It's the pictures that got small. "
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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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Eat
Body
" I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes. "
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Order
Difficulties
" The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners. "
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Industry
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" Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common. "
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Tennessee
Things
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" The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event. "
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First
Picture
Talking
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Romantic
Married
Nothing
" 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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Over
Two
Most
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Person
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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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