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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Doris Day

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Doris Day
Age: 97 †
Born: 1922
Born: January 1
Died: 2019
Died: May 13
Actor
Actress
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Jazz Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Television Actor
Television Producer
Cincinnati
Ohio
Doris Mary Kappelhoff
Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff
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DAY: I have a good job, a lovely apartment, I go out with very nice men to the best places, the finest restaurants, the theater. What am I missing? RITTER: If you hove to ask, believe me, you're missing it.
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Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.
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I always felt that making a living wasn't the easiest thing in the world, and I decided I was going straight ahead and try to be as uncomplicated as possible. The important thing in life is just living and loving.
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I'm not going to go around with a long face - that's a waste of time
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I love all the shows that encourage people to love, appreciate and help animals. There are more programs about animals than ever, and that pleases me.
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I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.
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It's quite an experience to have filming done in your house. When they come in, they photograph every piece of furniture and where it is so they can get them back exactly where you had them. You'd never know they'd been here.
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If so many people love me, how come I'm alone?
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Your skin, and your whole body, goes into repair mode when you sleep.
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I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.
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Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
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I like to sing love songs.
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I am deeply grateful to the President and to my country. ... To come from Cincinnati, Ohio, for God's sake, then to go to Hollywood, and to get this kind of tribute from my country. ... I love this country so much.
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When I see Liz Taylor with those Harry Winston boulders hanging from her neck I get nauseated. Not figuratively, but nauseated! All I can think of are how many dog shelters those diamonds could buy.
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The succession of cheerful, period musicals I made, plus Oscar Levant's widely publicized remark about my virginity, contributed to what has been called my image, which is a word that baffles me. There never was any intent on my part either in my acting or in my private life to create any such thing as an image.
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It has been said that the body is like an automobile - it's yours, but it isn't you.
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in the press, my sex life was something else again. I was Lady Bountiful of the Sheets. Some of the best fiction of the Sixties was written about my amorous adventures with an assortment of lovers who could have only been chosen by a berserk random sampler.
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I don't know if I want to get married again.
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Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it.
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The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.
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