"What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things."
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"The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it."
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"I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air"
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"Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home."
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"I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers"
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"Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid."
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"My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward."
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"No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life."
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"Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool."
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"Barely a teenager, Elizabeth Taylor was already more beautiful and voluptuous than Miss America. When she arrived at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for our magazine shoot, I was bowled over. I couldn't believe she was only fourteen. She filled out a swimsuit better than I did. We did the pictures, including one shot of me teaching her to float. With that superstructure of hers, she floated just fine. What she couldn't do was sink."
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"Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay."
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"There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it"
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"Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen."
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"When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again."
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"The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages."
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"I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage."
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"Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it."
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"It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious"
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"I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did."
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"Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone."
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