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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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"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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"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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"In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame."
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"Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended."
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"My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing."
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"I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party."
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"I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough."
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"When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th."
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"Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not."
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"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
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"I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man."
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"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."
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"Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful."
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"I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none."
Men

"Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau."
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"What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad."
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"I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera."
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