Personal Life
Diller, a longtime resident of the Brentwood area of Los Angeles, California, credited much of her success to Bob Hope, in large part because he included her in many of his movies and his Vietnam USO shows. She was an accomplished pianist and a painter.
Diller credited much of her success to a motivational book, The Magic of Believing (1948) by Claude M Bristol, which gave her confidence at the start of her career. The book was also an inspiration for her friend, Liberace.
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“A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.”
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