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Gene Tierney

"I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed."

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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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"Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints."

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"Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen."

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"I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos."

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"I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too."

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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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Amber Hurdle

"I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty."

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Amber Hurdle

"On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles."

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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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"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 went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party."

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"I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came."
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"I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war."
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