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"Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new."
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"I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday."
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"My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him."
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"When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th."
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"I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it."
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"It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people."
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"Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same."
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"As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release."
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"In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame."
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"The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday."
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"I quit after my seven-year contract with Universal was up. I quit for 33 years."
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"When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th."
Birthday

"I had been told by so many people that I was going to be nominated, that I should be nominated, that there wasn't any question about my being nominated. I don't think it was a surprise."
People

"I've been very, very successful. It's very satisfying to me."
Success

"It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair."
Love

"The John Ford pictures I made are highly regarded, but at the time they didn't seem like that."
Time

"I never had a great role in a great film."
Film

"When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses."
Name

"Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance."
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"I wanted to be a theater actress, but I thought it would be easier to get to New York and the theater if I had a name than if I just walked the streets as a little girl from California."
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