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“The Life of a Showgirl” looks forward to a happy relationship and bright future, though the old Taylor, the one who holds grudges and resents the celebrity machine, lingers.

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"Insiders" came to resent the domineering style of Arafat's "outsiders".

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She’s still reeling from her father’s death while also resenting having to parent Robbie’s kids after his wife abandoned them.

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Jones’ parents weren’t pushing her to audition for every role she could, and they wanted to keep her in school so she could be “a normal kid,” which she said she resented at the time.

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Her memoir is not a conventional biography but, as she puts it, "about my relationship with my mother… about how she made me the kind of writer that I am - and then resented it".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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