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Gene Tierney Inspirational Quotes (46)

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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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Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
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Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.
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I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.
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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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I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.
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My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.
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Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.
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When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb
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The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.
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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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The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.
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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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We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.
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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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I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.
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Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.
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I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.
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Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.
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I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.
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In later years, during what might be called my gray-outs — when I was conscious but not myself — I craved foods that were almost always fattening.
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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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