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I couldn't walk for almost three years. That was the greatest thing that happened. Instead of dancing, I sang.

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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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Thing
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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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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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It has been said that the body is like an automobile - it's yours, but it isn't you.
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The one radio voice that I listened to above others belonged to Ella Fitzgerald. There was a quality to her voice that fascinated me, and I'd sing along with her, trying to catch the subtle ways she shaded her voice, the casual yet clean way she sang the words.
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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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I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.
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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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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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