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"You want the audience to be uncomfortable."
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Personal Development
"I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything."
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Personal Development
"With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl."
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Personal Development
"If you want to be happy, be."
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Personal Development
"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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Personal Development
"The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them."
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Personal Development
"And I want to say anything is possible. Comma. You know."
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Personal Development
"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."
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Personal Development
"There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means."
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Personal Development
"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."
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Personal Development
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"I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage."
Football
"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."
Day
"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."
Character
"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."
Money
"Widowhood had done nothing to curb my smart mouth. So much for diplomacy."
Diplomacy
"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."
Sports
"When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again."
Funny
"Critics established a snobbery toward me."
Snobbery
"I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant."
Buying
"Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world."
Sports
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