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Esther Williams

"I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know."

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"I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know."

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"I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies."
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"The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages."
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