Shirley Jones Quotes

• We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.

  Shirley Jones

  Watches, Hardship, Assuming

  "Celebrity Big Brother: Producer Interview". FemaleFirst Interview, www.femalefirst.co.uk.

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• After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

  Shirley Jones

  Children, School, Salary

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.

  Shirley Jones

  Reality, Feelings, Who Cares

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• I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.

  Shirley Jones

  Names, Done, Motion Pictures

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• I wanted to be a veterinarian. I adored animals, raised everything in the world and decided that was going to be what I was going to do. But I could sing.

  Shirley Jones

  Animal, World, Veterinarian

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We can't negate television. Unfortunately, I do feel in many ways that it did kill my movie career. It did do that. But would I not do it again? Do I have any regrets about doing it? No.

  Shirley Jones

  Regret, Careers, Television

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• I feel very fortunate to have been associated with people such as Rodgers and Hammerstein. I think they were geniuses of their time.

  Shirley Jones

  Thinking, People, Genius

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• There's always someone to tell you you have to. Wrong. Don't. Rather, spend time finding out who you really are. Work on being more of that. A lot better than the futile gotta change treadmill, which never really ends.

  Shirley Jones

  Change, Ends, Spend Time

  Shirley Jones, Marty Ingels, Mickey Herskowitz (1993). “Shirley & Marty: An Unlikely Love Story”, p.302, SP Books

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• I wanted some family structure and stability, and thats what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.

  Shirley Jones

  Home, Kids, Facts

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• I'm a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That's my kind of music.

  Shirley Jones

  Fans, Kind, Gershwin

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• It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.

  Shirley Jones

  Wake Up, Annoying, Habit

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