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"I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed."
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"I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days."
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"I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know."
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"I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage."
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"I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind."
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"My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish."
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"I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up."
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"As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release."
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"The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him."
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"I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed."
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"You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us."
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"I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him."
Home
"Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not."
People
"Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit."
Talent
"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
Father
"I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man."
Interest
"Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese."
Career
"Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set."
Behavior
"Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish."
Life
"Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful."
Beauty
"I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection."
Reflection
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