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" We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise. "
Gloria Swanson
Island
Paradise
Me
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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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Yesterday
Today
Debt
" The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour. "
Gloria Swanson
Publicity
Sunset
Me
" Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat. "
Gloria Swanson
Result
Eat
Body
" The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners. "
Gloria Swanson
Gossip
Industry
Sinners
" I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance. "
Gloria Swanson
Romantic
Married
Nothing
" I am big. It's the pictures that got small. "
Gloria Swanson
Got
Small
Pictures
" The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do. "
Gloria Swanson
Pictures
Person
Never
" Nobody gets anything for nothing. "
Gloria Swanson
Nobody
Nothing
Anything
" I am a very pragmatic person. "
Gloria Swanson
Very
Pragmatic
Am
" At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures. "
Gloria Swanson
Victim
Rather
Pictures
" There was no place at all for me in my father's military world. "
Gloria Swanson
Me
Military
Place
" By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse. "
Gloria Swanson
Mother
Turned
Real
" I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients. "
Gloria Swanson
Safe
Women
More
" I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again. "
Gloria Swanson
Over
Life
Rest
" 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
" The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish. "
Gloria Swanson
Me
Shifting
Sound
" If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived. "
Gloria Swanson
Years
Been
Failure
" As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation. "
Gloria Swanson
Daddy
Said
Percent
" Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy. "
Gloria Swanson
Money
Only
You
" I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille. "
Gloria Swanson
Had
Successful
Six
" Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood. "
Gloria Swanson
Sunset
August
Best
" Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common. "
Gloria Swanson
Tennessee
Things
Gifted
" After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried. "
Gloria Swanson
Where
Knew
Years
" Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years. "
Gloria Swanson
Like
Look
Care
" I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair. "
Gloria Swanson
Behind
Hiding
Director
" 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. "
Gloria Swanson
Talent
Person
Much
" I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents. "
Gloria Swanson
Babies
Sure
Parents
" I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes. "
Gloria Swanson
Always
Order
Difficulties
" In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it. "
Gloria Swanson
Over
Two
Most
" Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth. "
Gloria Swanson
Writing
Life Is A
Teeth