"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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"I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I."
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"As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!"
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"I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?"
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"Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners."
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"Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators."
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"I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking."
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"I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it."
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"I believe you have to nurture your conscience."
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"We can't have everything! It took a lot of growing up for me to realize this unalterable fact and to discipline myself into accepting it."
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"Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties."
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"I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell . . ."
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"When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry."
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"In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal."
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"I believe that if we have lived our lives fully and well, and have accomplished, at least in part, the things we were put here to do, we will be prepared - mentally, physically and spiritually - for our separation from this world."
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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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"In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way."
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"In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium."
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"In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true."
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"Glamour is something no woman can be born with. It's not a gift at all. It's more of a concoction than anything else."
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