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This book is an anthology of 58 quotes from Elizabeth Taylor and 101 selected facts about Elizabeth Taylor. Her fourth-husband Eddie Fisher said that a $50,000 diamond could keep Taylor happy for approximately four days.In 1963, while the highest paid American business executive earned $650,000 and President John F. Kennedy's salary was $150,000, Elizabeth Taylor received at least $2.4 million.Elizabeth Taylor delivered all three of her biological children via Caesarean section.Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton starred together in 11 movies: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , The V.I.P.s , Under Milk Wood , The Taming of the Shrew , The Sandpiper , Hammersmith Is Out , Doctor Faustus , Divorce His - Divorce Hers , The Comedians , Cleopatra and Boom! . She had an uncredited cameo in Burton's film Anne of the Thousand Days .In 1969, Richard Burton bought Elizabeth Taylor one of the world's largest and most beautiful diamonds from the jeweler Cartier after losing an auction for the 69-carat, pear-shaped stone to the jeweler, who won with a $1-million bid. Ten years later, the twice-divorced-from-Burton Taylor herself auctioned off the Burton-Taylor Diamond to fund a hospital in Botswana.A casting agent said of Elizabeth Taylor as a 19 year old The kid has nothing. Her eyes are too old .Elizabeth Taylor has four children and nine grandchildren. I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.Big girls need big diamonds.If not to make the world better, what is money for?If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.It's not the having, it's the getting.Acting is, to me now (2005), artificial. Seeing people suffer is real. It couldn't be more real. Some people don't like to look at it in the face because it's painful. But if nobody does, then nothing gets done.Clark Gable was the epitome of the movie star -- so romantic, such bearing, and such friendliness.Everything makes me nervous - except making films.He is part of my heart. We would do anything for each other (On Michael Jackson).

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