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The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title

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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In later years, during what might be called my gray-outs — when I was conscious but not myself — I craved foods that were almost always fattening.
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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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Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.
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I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My own mother was my darling.
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About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.
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I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead of shock treatments received rest and quiet and the good medication?
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Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.
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Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.
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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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I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.
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In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.
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I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
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The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.
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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 was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.
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The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.
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A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.
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Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.
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I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.
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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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