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I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Gene Tierney
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Gene Tierney
Age: 70 †
Born: 1920
Born: November 19
Died: 1991
Died: November 6
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Gene Eliza Tierney
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Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.
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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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Where there is hope, there is no despair.
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There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.
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The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title
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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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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 simply did not want my face to be my talent.
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I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.
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The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.
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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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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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