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Doris Day
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“If a man does something silly, people say, 'Isn't he silly?' If a woman does something silly, people say, 'Aren't women silly?'”
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“If so many people love me, how come I'm alone?”
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“... when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent, devoted companionship of a dog that you get from no other source.”
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“I have never found in a human being loyalty that is comparable to a dog's loyalty.”
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“It has been said that the body is like an automobile — it's yours, but it isn't you.”
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“... in the press, my sex life was something else again. I was Lady Bountiful of the Sheets. Some of the best fiction of the Sixties was written about my amorous adventures with an assortment of lovers who could have only been chosen by a berserk random sampler.”
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“... if you play the numbers game and become obsessed with it, as so many in Hollywood are, sooner or later you have to face the depressing fact that if you are number one the only place you can go is down.”
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“... vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.”
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“The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.”
Doris Day, U.S. actor, singer
(1924)
Born: Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff.