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There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

Loretta Young

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Loretta Young
Age: 87 †
Born: 1913
Born: January 6
Died: 2000
Died: August 12
Actress
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Salt Lake City
Utah
Gretchen Young
Beautiful
Achievement
Personal
Beauty
Born

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I do not hold with those who think it is all right to do whatever you want so long as it doesn't hurt anyone. Who's to be the judge of that?
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A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.
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A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.
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The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.
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Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.
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In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.
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As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.
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I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.
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Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.
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If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.
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I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.
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