In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

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We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

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Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.

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When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb.

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When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

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When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

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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.

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The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

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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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I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?

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