What a different world it was ...

What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.
 Gene Tierney

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I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.
 Gene Tierney
Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.
 Gene Tierney
In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.
 Gene Tierney
The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.
 Gene Tierney
I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My own mother was my darling.
 Gene Tierney