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"What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things."
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"I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do."

"I think that the public is in and the public is in big, and the public is not, I don't think going to pull out because the public knows what I said about 1987."

"Cable would not translate into the public radio universe."

"Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years."

"So, I think it has to do with the product and what you take to the public. If they like it, they're going to come see you, and if they don't, and if you're kind of getting out of the trendy line of things, then they won't come see you."

"There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet."

"Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more."
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"Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home."

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

"I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time."

"I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit."

"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."

"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."

"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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