Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Quotes
The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in 'Mommie Dearest' is not the Joan Crawford I knew back when.
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I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett.
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All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
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You've got to keep your eye on the prize and do what you love to do.
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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
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Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible.
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It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.
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When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.
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The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.
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When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
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My greatest competition is, well, me.
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Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.
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I could list hundreds of words I've come up against in the course of my work that did not exist in the era of which I was writing and for which I never could find a suitably old-time, archaic or obsolete substitute.
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I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting on doing comedies. We should know by now that we make good cars but we're not the funniest people.
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Facebook and Instagram are spiritual brothers.
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'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.
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You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.
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If I find something funny and make an older woman laugh, I love that for some reason.
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Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.
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It's important to be conscious of the world we live in. We get one chance, as far as I'm concerned, but we all leave an echo. It's important that our echo resonates positively on the planet and its inhabitants after we're gone.
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Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
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If history is any indication, we should assume that any technology that is going to have a significant impact over the next 10 years is already 10 years old!
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The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in 'Mommie Dearest' is not the Joan Crawford I knew back when.
