"I didn't want to spend the rest of……" — Gloria Swanson
"I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again."
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54 Quotes by Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson has 54 quotes on this site.
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I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.
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All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.
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Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the…
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I have gone through a long apprenticeship. I have gone through enough of being a nobody. I have decided that…
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I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.
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After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.
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It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard'…
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By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.
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If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.
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So they were turning, after all - those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma…
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I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
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Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions…
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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I…
— Bono
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I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that…
— Dave Brubeck
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So they were turning, after all - those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma…
— Gloria Swanson
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I think there’s a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother…
— Jody Williams
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Sometimes I get the feeling that there are orgies going on all over new York City, and somebody says, `Let's…
— Paul Desmond
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Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.
— Eddie Condon
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Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I…
— Anna Chlumsky
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Sometimes strident, often tender, never afraid and seldom without humour, Desmond Tutu's voice will always be the voice of the…
— Nelson Mandela
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I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their…
— Jim Wallis
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As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.
— Boz Scaggs
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I haven't watched anything I've been in since I've done it. I have never put in a movie at home…
— Helen Hunt
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Desmond, don't poke the baby!'... 'I'll get you next time-' Don't threaten the baby either!'...
— Derek Landy
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