Loretta Young quotes
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“A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.”
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“Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.”
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“Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.”
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“Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.”
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“If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.”
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“I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.”
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“I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.”
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“Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup.”
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“A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.”
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“There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.”
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“Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.”
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“Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.”
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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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“Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.”
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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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“I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.”
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“Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.”
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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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“Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.”
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“I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.”
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“I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.”
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“In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.”
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“I do not hold with those who think it is all right to do whatever you want so long as it doesn't hurt anyone. Who's to be the judge of that?”
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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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“A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.”
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“Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.”
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“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've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.”
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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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“Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.”
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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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“If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.”
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“I think teenage impatience is just plain human nature! I think every generation has to cope with different circumstances, different problems. But it's the world that's changed. Human nature hasn't.”
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“I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it.”
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“Every day, no matter what I'm doing, I say, 'Lord, I'll do the best I can, and You do the rest.”
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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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“In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.”
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“I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.”
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“I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.”
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“I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.”
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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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“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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“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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“Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.”
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“I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.”
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“The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.”
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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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“Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.”
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“Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.”
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“I believe you have to nurture your conscience.”
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“I believe in the efficacy of prayer and I have a deep and sorrowful sympathy for one who is without faith. I believe our Father answers every prayer-all prayers-with His matchless, inscrutable wisdom, with infinite compassion and with love.”
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“I don't know many ambition- ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn't seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all.”
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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 was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.”
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“I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.”
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“I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.”
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“What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know.”
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“No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.”
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“I'm not sure the public knows what it wants.”
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