Attention embarrasses me. I don't like to be on display.

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Speaking with Rex Reed on April 12, 1984, the day she was to be honored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center; as quoted in "Barbara Stanwyck at Seventy-Four: 'Life Was My Only training'," New York Daily News (April 13, 1981), p. M6

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Attention embarrasses me. I don't like to be on display.

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