Mary Pickford Quotes
Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.
Quotes to Explore
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.
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I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.
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Each day will be triumphant only when your smiles bring forth smiles from others.
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One thing I would say is that I think in any environment that you work in, there's always going to be one or two people who you don't like. But there just wasn't that on 'Games Of Thrones'. I know it sounds cheesy and cliched, but it was like a big family.
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I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like.
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Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.
