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"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."

"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."

"There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."
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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 remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you."

"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."

"Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues."

"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."

"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."
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