Mary Astor Quotes
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To move the wheels of justice is a ponderous business.
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Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.
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The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.
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Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks.
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Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it.
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There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor?
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Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.
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The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.
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A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.
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It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.
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Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.
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A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
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The boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.
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Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence.