"What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things."
"No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements."
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"The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it."
"I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air"
"Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home."
"Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid."
"I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers"