Mary Pickford Quotes
I am no longer in pictures for money. I am in them because I love them. I am not in vain. I do not care about giving a smashing personal performance. My one ambition is to create fine entertainment.
Quotes to Explore
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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It was in 1969, and I thought, wow, you know, I really didn't want to do a TV series. You know, I had my own act, and I was performing in Vegas and doing all of these exciting things.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.
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If you put too much pressure on the Palestinian Authority, it will collapse - it will disappear - and Israel will have to formally re-occupy the West Bank and assume responsibility for the Palestinians there. The United States doesn't want that. Israel doesn't really want that.
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.
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You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox.
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Tao loves and nourishes all things, but does not dominate it over them.
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For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the table, to have my work out there. Now I must write a book every two years, and that's never enough time, either.
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When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage.
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I am no longer in pictures for money. I am in them because I love them. I am not in vain. I do not care about giving a smashing personal performance. My one ambition is to create fine entertainment.
