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Joan Ganz Cooney | 06/13/2008 12:00 am

Joan Cooney: I Didn't Have Any Acting Talent

By Joan Ganz Cooney

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In response to: What is the best advice your dad ever gave you?

The best piece of advice my father ever gave me was not to become an actress back in my high school acting days. It made me focus on doing something behind the scenes, and since I didn’t have any acting talent, that was where I belonged.

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