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"I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air."
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"We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet."
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"The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet."
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"On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'"
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"I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked."
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"Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times."
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"If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune."
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"A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings."
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"If you feel you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you."
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"I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its feet."
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"When you're a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see that line around your mouth, but when you're an actress and you see that line up on the big screen, it's, like, seven feet long."
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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
"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
"Critics established a snobbery toward me."
Snobbery
"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."
Being
"With two little boys in diapers, I had to keep it simple if I were going to have a life at all."
Life
"I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood."
Life
"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."
Movies
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