Gene Tierney Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.”
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“Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.”
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“We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.”
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“Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.”
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“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.”
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“Nothing strengthens a woman's determination to be in love quite so much as being told that she cannot.”
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“When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb”
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“Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.”
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“I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.”
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“Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.”
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“Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.”
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“I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.”
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“In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.”
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“Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.”
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“Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.”
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“The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.”
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“For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.”
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“there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.”
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“I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.”
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“I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.”
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“I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.”
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“When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.”
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“I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.”
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“About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.”
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“Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.”
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“Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.”
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“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
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