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

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Gene Tierney
Age: 70 †
Born: 1920
Born: November 19
Died: 1991
Died: November 6
Actor
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Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Actress
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Brooklyn
New York
Gene Eliza Tierney
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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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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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Where there is hope, there is no despair.
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I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.
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I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.
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About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.
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We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.
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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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It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.
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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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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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