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" The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners. "
Gloria Swanson
Gossip
Industry
Sinners
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" At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures. "
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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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" 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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" My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends. "
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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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" All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in. "
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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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" 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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" Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common. "
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" The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event. "
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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 feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents. "
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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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" 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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