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Her successful avoidance of further pregnancies would have been a natural reaction to having been assigned the role of an imperial brood mare, bearing a child a year only to have it taken away from her, but the importance of preserving her youthful appearance was an important influence in her decision: " Children are the curse of a woman, for when they come, they drive away Beauty, which is the best gift of the gods ".
Her youthful companions include Daisy Duck, Clarabelle Cow, Penelope " Penny " Pooch, Patty Pony, TJ Turtle, Heather Hippo, Lily Lamb, Minnie's dog Fifi the Peke and Daisy's kitten Trixie.
Her beauty was much spoken of, and she had youthful romances with playboy Prince Aly Khan, millionaire aviator Glen Kidston, car salesman Baron Martin Stillman von Brabus, and publishing heir Max Aitken.
Her protagonists were often independent, quirky women or youthful underdogs who encountered social or natural injustices.
Her breakthrough role was that of Barbara in the unconventional 1968 movie Zur Sache, Schätzchen ( Go for It, Baby ), which captured the spirit of the times in that it presented youthful protest against the German establishment and hinted at the loosening of morals in the wake of the sexual revolution.
Her youthful looks ( she played Rodríguez's teenage daughter ), along with her experience as an actress helped her get chosen.
Her youthful appearance now only exists in her mirror, the source of her life, as an illusion and nothing more.
Her poetry spoke about love and patriotism ; it was enthusiastic and youthful, yet serious and sensitive.
Her enthroned figure rotated slowly throughout the day, fixing the onlooker with her serene and youthful gaze.
Her youthful and lively interpretations made her an ideal interpreter of roles like Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro.
Her " earliest griefs arose from the fact, that, in her youthful inexperience, having chosen with her head, she expected at the same time to satisfy the longings of a singularly romantic heart ".
Her youthful looks enabled her to portray a character several years her junior although by the final series, with the actress in her mid-twenties and now married to actor Melvyn Hayes, careful camera angles were required to conceal her advancing pregnancy.

Her and ambition
Her ambition, personal wit and cleverness won her a distinguished position in society, in spite of her humble origin.
Her ambition to bring back Buffy from the dead inevitably led to Tara getting shot and killed.
Her ambition was to be a dancer.
Her ambition alienated the chroniclers of her day, who blamed her for several of the king's decisions.
Her mother, Ruby Finney ( Connie Gilchrist ), is unsure what to think of her daughter's ambition, but Ruby's friend ( and the Bishops ' servant ) Sadie ( an uncredited Thelma Ritter ) approves.
Her first love and ambition was ballet, which she studied from ages seven to seventeen.
Her earliest theatrical influences were the teenaged actress Deanna Durbin, screen star Irene Dunne and Lansbury's mother, who encouraged her daughter's ambition by taking her to plays at the Old Vic.
Her intellect and ambition were demonstrated by her ability to compress three years of Latin into one, and by graduating at the top of her high school class in Crowley.
Her first ambition to become an actress came after seeing her mother win the " Mrs. Los Angeles " pageant for homemakers.
Her ambition was to be a doctor, but a modelling stint opened a career path into Bollywood.
Her childhood ambition was to be a nurse, but she did not have the O level in Latin it required, so she decided to become an actress.
Her original ambition was to become a professional tennis player, at which point her headmistress pointed out to her " they'd never see you over the net ", but Paige continued to play tennis and has referred to the sport as one of her passions.
Her parents worry because Rilla seems not to have any ambition, is not interested in attending college, and is more concerned with having fun.
Her ambition was to secure the post of Camarera mayor de Palacio, or chief of the household to the young queen, a child of barely thirteen.
Her style was more like that of the male authors of her era, creating aggressive and often physically violent female characters who demonstrate powerful sexual desires and ambition.
Her grandfather had the ambition of making her a scholar ; her mother was fluent in Sanskrit and Hindi, and very religious.
" Her stated ambition is " to play all the great women's roles ...
Her early ambition was to become a High School Teacher, to teach Economics and History.
Her goal was to " become the personification of national ambition and to return to France a spirit of greatness and an awareness of its place in history ".
Her early ambition was to be a designer of some kind, until the death of her father at forty-six,
Her historic voyage on the yacht Blackmore's First Lady was the result of a childhood ambition.
Her ambition to deal with the highest things was further evinced by her undertaking at different times the translation of the two contemporary continental books most famous at the moment — Strauss's ' The Old Faith and the New ' ( 1873 and 1874 ) and ' The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseft ' ( 1890 ); also by writing for the ' Eminent Women Series ' the lives of two of the most distinguished among women — George Eliot ( 1883 ; new edit.
Her ambition is eventually to be a broadcasting executive, but though intelligent and talented, she was held back early on by her extreme shyness and fear of speaking up.
Her ambition is to become a pediatric psychologist.

Her and had
Her hat had come off and fallen behind her shoulders, held by the string, and he could see her face more clearly than he had at any time before.
Her own body protested, aching painfully where the blood in her veins had congealed, where cold demon wisps still clung and caressed.
Her impact in the zing commercials had led to her being considered for an excellent part in an upcoming TV series, Underwater Western Eye, a documentary-type show to be sponsored by Oatnut Grits.
Her mouth, which had been so much in my thoughts, was warm and moist and tender.
Her eyes had opened, she had caught a glimpse of a new faith.
Her brother Karl was a very gentle soul, her mother was a quiet woman who said little but who had hard, probing eyes.
Her mother, now dead, was my good friend and when she came to tell us about her plans and to show off her ring I had a sobering wish to say something meaningful to her, something her mother would wish said.
Her mother had done it before her, and even her old grandmother, who had collected money for smallpox and unwed mothers.
Her presence only made Letch more distant and irritable and, in the hurry of buying Chateau Belletch, I had neglected to consider a room for Baby-dear, so there was no place to put her, anyhow.
Her previous traumatic experiences flashed through her mind as if they had happened yesterday.
Her neighbors in the expensive Houston apartment building told reporters that the ash-blonde beauty had talked at times about her past as `` the Golden Girl of the Mickey Jelke trial ''.
Her skin crawled: Lolotte had told Maude that she was in the hall and the door was open.
Her estate had grown considerably.
Her entrance in Scene 2, Act 1, brought some disconcerting applause even before she had sung a note.
Her nose was higher of bridge, her complexion so pale as to be quite susceptible to sunburn, and the fish and vegetable diet of her forebears had given her teeth that were white and regular and strong.
Her Cousin Emma Carraway had written it, in her loose high old lady's script -- t's carefully crossed, but l's inclined to wobble like an old car on the downward slope.
Her friends and professional associates would sympathize with her, not because she had lost a beloved husband, but because she had been married to a man who thought unrealistically.
Her first actual flight, for she and her kind had made mock flights on dummy panels since she was eight, showed her complete mastery of the techniques of her profession.
Her chief center of worship was at Paphos, where the goddess of desire had been worshipped from the early Iron Age in the form of Ishtar and Astarte.
Her mother ’ s marriage to Agrippa was her second marriage, as Julia the Elder was widowed from her first marriage, to her paternal cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus and they had no children.
Her mother and her siblings had travelled with Agrippa.

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