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    About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

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    A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

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    As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.

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    Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.

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    Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.

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    Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

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    Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

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    Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.

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    Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

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    I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

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    I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

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    I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

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    I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead of shock treatments received rest and quiet and the good medication?

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    I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.

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    I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.

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    I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

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    I had been introduced to psychotherapy, in which the doctors let you talk, talk, talk, until you find the source of your problem or find another doctor.

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    I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

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    I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.

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    I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.

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    I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.

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    I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

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    I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.

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    I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.

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    I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My own mother was my darling.

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    In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

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    In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.

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    In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

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    I simply did not want my face to be my talent.

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    I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

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    It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

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    It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.

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    I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

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    I used up every cent I had earned as an actress.

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    I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.

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    I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

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    I was not cut out to be a rebel.

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    I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

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    Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

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    Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.

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    Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.

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    Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.

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    My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still arguing about money.

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    Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.

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    Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

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    that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.

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    The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

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    The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.

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    The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

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    there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.