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“Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.”
-- Gene Tierney

#Wind #Bottles #Littles
“It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.”
-- Gene Tierney

#Writing #Glasses #Disease
“that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.”
-- Gene Tierney

#Character #Pride #Melting
“I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.”
-- Gene Tierney

#Addiction #Admire
“Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.”
-- Gene Tierney

#Sexy #Intelligent #Needs
“We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.”
-- Gene Tierney

#Europe #Numbers #People
“Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.”
-- Gene Tierney

#Girl #Teenage #Eye
“My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still arguing about money.”
-- Gene Tierney

#Parent #Littles #Arguing
“Nothing strengthens a woman's determination to be in love quite so much as being told that she cannot.”
-- Gene Tierney

#Determination
“When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb”
-- Gene Tierney

#Light #Secret #Normal
“Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.”
-- Gene Tierney

#Jealousy #Party #Thinking
“I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.”
-- Gene Tierney

#Sexy #Intelligent #Mind
“Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.”
-- Gene Tierney

#Passion #House #Should
“Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.”
-- Gene Tierney

#Pain #Chronic Pain #Ill
“I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.”
-- Gene Tierney

#Birthday #Hollywood #Sparks
“In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.”
-- Gene Tierney

#Mother #Clothes #Hollywood
“Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.”
-- Gene Tierney

#Long #Afternoon #Talent
“Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.”
-- Gene Tierney

#Car #Weakness #Fur
“The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.”
-- Gene Tierney

#Sleep
“For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.”
-- Gene Tierney

#Years #Judgment
“there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.”
-- Gene Tierney

#Failure #Way #Failing
“I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.”
-- Gene Tierney

#Nature #Charm #Not Sure
“I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.”
-- Gene Tierney

#Grandmother #Thinking #Roles
“I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.”
-- Gene Tierney

#Cheer #Cheer Up #Fine
“When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.”
-- Gene Tierney

#Symbolism #Important #Easy
“I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.”
-- Gene Tierney

#Sexy #Jobs #Intelligent
“About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.”
-- Gene Tierney

#Careers #Serious #Sometimes
“Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.”
-- Gene Tierney

#Children #People
“Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.”
-- Gene Tierney

#Eccentric #Behavior
“I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?”
-- Gene Tierney

#Home #Agriculture #Medication

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