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When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take...I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.

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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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I liked being married instead of the girl who's looking for a guy.
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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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Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.
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I've been through everything. I always said I was like those round-bottomed circus dolls — you know, those dolls you could push down and they'd come back up? I've always been like that. I've always said, No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I'm going to come right back up.
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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 have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.
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If a man does something silly, people say, 'Isn't he silly?' If a woman does something silly, people say, 'Aren't women silly?
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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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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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Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
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I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people.
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If so many people love me, how come I'm alone?
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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
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