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Critics established a snobbery toward me.
Esther Williams / Swimmer
Critics
Snobbery
Established
Toward
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Once I married Fernando, I became invisible.
Esther Williams / Swimmer
Invisible
Married
Fernando
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Which Esther Williams do you want to hear about?
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Williams
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Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.
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Ideals
Teenage
Teenage Life
Ideal
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Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.
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Firsts
Mermaid
Clark
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We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.
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Medal
Olympic Medals
Winning
Medals
Olympic
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I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did.
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Mgm
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I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.
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Granted
Hollywood
Would Be
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I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air
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Air
Feet
Mermaid
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Widowhood had done nothing to curb my smart mouth. So much for diplomacy.
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Curb
Diplomacy
Smart
Mouth
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I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air.
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Air
Feet
Gold
Mermaid
Dollar
Million
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Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.
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Sports
Big News
Events
Gold
News
Medals
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There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it
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Men
Drinking
Lunch
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There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it.
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Drinking
Ignored
Lunch
Policy
Hughes
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The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.
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Wisdom
Athlete
Share
Teaching
Useless
Acquired
Gift
Passage
Unless
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I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers
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Beverly Hills
Hospitality
Swim
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I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers.
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Beverly Hills
Hills
Hotel
Pool
Swim
Beverly
Daily
Presence
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Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.
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Marriage
Pay
Shelter
Fernando
Offered
Price
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What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.
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Health
Different Things
Healthy
Individual
Inspiration
Two
Expects
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By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.
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Home
Eye
Night
Rings
By The Time
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With two little boys in diapers, I had to keep it simple if I were going to have a life at all.
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Diapers
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No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.
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Arsenic
Challenges
Regret
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I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.
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Buying
Gas
Gas Stations
Plant
Ended
Gas Station
Invested
Metal
Restaurant
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Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen.
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Men
Mature
Swag
Swagger
Together
Good Great Together
Screen
Victor
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I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know
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Women
Stars
Thinking
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I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know.
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Movie Star
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I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.
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Movie
Made
Swimming
Would Be
Movies Always See
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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.
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Home
Hints
Swimming
Home World Me
Hint
Meets
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Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues
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Girl
Sports
Issues
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No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements.
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Done
Swimming
Underwater
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Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues.
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Precursor
Ran
Sports Illustrated
Life Sports Me
Clearly
Illustrated
Magazine
Page
Swimsuit
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When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.
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Betrayal
Long
Sight
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The animus is symbolized by male figures appearing in a womans dreams and fantasies, as a husband, son, father, lover, Prince Charming.
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Dream
Father
Husband
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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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Drinking
Faster
Gambling
Husband
Mgm
Contract
Lucrative
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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
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Movie
Gone
Long
Suits
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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.
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Bathing
Swimmer
Anyway
Bathing Suit
Gotten
Long Gone
Suit
Tarzan
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It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious
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Audience
Invited
Water
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The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.
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Space
Sports
Champion
Newspapers
Pages
Pictures
Sports Pages
Swimmers
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It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious.
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Delicious
Invited
Appeared
Conveyed
Sensation
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I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.
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Jobs
Bonus
Cents
Cost
Lunchtime
Order
Pool
Swim
Towels
Wet
Allowed
Earn
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My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.
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Mother
Sunday
Training
Afterwards
Begun
Encouraged
Every Sunday
Minister
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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.
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Firsts
Mayer
Office
Remember When
Study
Yards
Time Walk Remember
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Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.
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Girl
Strength
Character
Discipline
Pool
Swimming
Swimming Pool
Water
Little
Started
Above
Had
First
Develop
Head
Her
Little Girl
Somehow
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I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.
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Damage
Football
Football Player
Heavy
Strong
Swimming
Muscle
Frame
Inflict
Packed
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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.
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New York
Running
Comedy
Eight
Feet
Half
Musical
One Thing
Stars
Streets
Star
Hoping
Musical Comedy
Studio
Walked
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Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.
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Business
Headquarters
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Use
Vegas
Angeles
Hughes
Los
Recently
Regular
Restaurant
Telephone
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Barely a teenager, Elizabeth Taylor was already more beautiful and voluptuous than Miss America. When she arrived at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for our magazine shoot, I was bowled over. I couldn't believe she was only fourteen. She filled out a swimsuit better than I did. We did the pictures, including one shot of me teaching her to float. With that superstructure of hers, she floated just fine. What she couldn't do was sink.
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Beautiful
Teaching
Teenager
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