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" There was no place at all for me in my father's military world. "
Gloria Swanson
Me
Military
Place
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" I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European. "
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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
Shifting
Sound
" The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners. "
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Gossip
Industry
Sinners
" All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year. "
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California
Three
" After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried. "
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Knew
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" I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944. "
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Healthy
About
Fanatic
" 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
" Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how. "
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Life And Death
Mixed
Death
" 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
" If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived. "
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Years
Been
Failure
" I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance. "
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Married
Nothing
" I am a very pragmatic person. "
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Very
Pragmatic
Am
" 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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Moment
Picture
Side
" I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille. "
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Had
Successful
Six
" 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
" Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common. "
Gloria Swanson
Tennessee
Things
Gifted
" Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood. "
Gloria Swanson
Sunset
August
Best
" When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life. "
Gloria Swanson
Story
Private Life
Life
" Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him. "
Gloria Swanson
Money
Him
Artist
" All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in. "
Gloria Swanson
Had
Watch
Roll
" My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing. "
Gloria Swanson
Look
Mother
Seeing
" As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation. "
Gloria Swanson
Daddy
Said
Percent
" By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse. "
Gloria Swanson
Mother
Turned
Real
" The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience. "
Gloria Swanson
Experience
Hunting
Time
" My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends. "
Gloria Swanson
Sculpture
Personal
Friends
" 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 didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again. "
Gloria Swanson
Over
Life
Rest
" I am big. It's the pictures that got small. "
Gloria Swanson
Got
Small
Pictures
" The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck. "
Gloria Swanson
Goes
Age
First