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"I wouldn't tell Jill how I felt. I behaved in such a way that was opposite to how I felt. I must have seemed strong to her. I didn't want to bring her down."
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"As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypassed these kind of shows and gone straight to the Arena shows, but we didn't want to."
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"But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer."
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"It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious."

"I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you."

"Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it."

"I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime."

"What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things."

"Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool."
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