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The service meant so much to me. You don't know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served.

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Tony Curtis
Age: 85 †
Born: 1925
Born: June 3
Died: 2010
Died: September 29
Actor
Film Actor
Painter
Television Actor
Writer
New York City
New York
Bernard Schwartz
Bernard Herschel Schwartz
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I like Vegas for its spontaneity.
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Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
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While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.
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I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.
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But my longevity is due to my good timing.
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Marilyn Monro wasn't the brightest person in the world - that didn't make a difference one way or the other - but she was giving and kind. And that's what got her in trouble. She was so giving and kind to all of these people she met that she found herself doing these things that she didn't want to do.
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I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.
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You wanna know the secret of life? The saliva of young girls.
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Every movie I've been in has ended up on television.
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Joe: We can't just walk out on her without saying goodbye. Jerry: What? Since when? You usually walk out and leave 'em with nothing but a kick in the teeth. Joe: That's when I was a saxophone player. Now I'm a millionaire.
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Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.
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I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.
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Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.
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We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.
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Hollywood ... the most sensational merry-go-around ever built.
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I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.
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The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.
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