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Gloria Swanson
American
Actress
Born:
Mar 17
,
1899
Died:
Apr 4
,
1983
First
Had
Life
Me
World
You
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Nobody gets anything for nothing.
Gloria Swanson
Nothing
Nobody
Gets
Anything
If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.
Gloria Swanson
Failure
You
Old
Never
Had
Been
Years
Deprived
Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.
Gloria Swanson
Life
Writing
Life Is A
Own
Teeth
Bit
Drilling
Like
Story
Your
One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me.
Gloria Swanson
Me
Care
Medium
TV
TV Set
Networks
Depressed
Sent
Watch
Set
Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.
Gloria Swanson
Best
Sunset
Made
About
Boulevard
Opened
August
Movie
Hollywood
Ever
There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.
Gloria Swanson
Me
World
Father
Military
Place
After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.
Gloria Swanson
Intimidated
Easily
Could
Knew
Pictures
Because
Were
Years
Buried
Where
After
Skeletons
By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.
Gloria Swanson
Time
Me
Mother
Had
Real
Turned
By The Time
From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.
Gloria Swanson
First
Picture
Side
About
Consumed
Sound
Shooting
Moment
Technical
Set
I am a very pragmatic person.
Gloria Swanson
Pragmatic
Am
Very
Person
I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.
Gloria Swanson
Health
Food
Healthy
About
Became
Fanatic
I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.
Gloria Swanson
Time
People
Consider
Telling
Could
Pounds
Weighs
Over
Refrain
Anybody
Who
Fat
I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.
Gloria Swanson
Life
Rest
My Life
Spend
Over
Want
Again
Playing
Desmond
I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.
Gloria Swanson
Director
Every
Corporation
Hiding
Were
Behind
Doubted
Communists
Chair
Desk
I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.
Gloria Swanson
Parenting
Parents
Babies
Unborn
Pick
Feel
Sure
I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.
Gloria Swanson
Films
Directed
More
Had
Cecil
Than
Six
Successful
Starred
Row
In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.
Gloria Swanson
Life
Months
Entire
Entire Life
Had
Taken
Joseph
Over
Implicitly
Most
Make
Him
Trusted
Kennedy
Two
Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.
Gloria Swanson
Director
Money
Real Estate
Made
Nothing
Temperamental
About
Most
Him
Real
His
Sam
Artist
Wood
Estate
Agent
The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.
Gloria Swanson
World
First
Picture
Press
Major
Talking
Premiere
English
Event
Treated
The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.
Gloria Swanson
Age
First
Feature
Advancing
Feminine
Goes
Neck
The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
Gloria Swanson
Me
Shifting
Difficulty
Fuss
About
Struck
Foolish
Perfectly
Making
Sound
Began
Actor
Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.
Gloria Swanson
You
Result
Eat
Direct
Well
Body
Your
Your Body
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