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Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.
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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Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.
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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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Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.
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It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.
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I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.
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