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After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count. ↗

— Donna Rice

#count #graduating #i #knew #life

Although I'd first seen Senator Hart in Aspen, Colorado, at a New Year's Day party in 1987, we hadn't talked. ↗

— Donna Rice

#aspen #colorado #day #first #hadn

At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut. ↗

— Donna Rice

#commercial #doing #first #grade #hut

Even if your job is a professional singer, we still dork out at home. ↗

— Sheena Easton

#even #home #job #out #professional

Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night. ↗

— Donna Rice

#asked #before #called #day #dinner

But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past. ↗

— Donna Rice

#apparently #because #been #continued #embellish

Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things. ↗

— Peter Bogdanovich

#dorothy-swenson #irony #outsider #beauty

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally. ↗

— Donna Rice

#carolina #city #compete #encouraged #friends

Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there. ↗

— Donna Rice

#actress #card #career #commercial #difficult

Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants. ↗

— Elmer Rice

#high #men #men and women #professional #reduced