Mary Pickford Quotes
It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.
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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
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Who buys French cars? Not me.
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I've never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia.
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.
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According to Celtic law, all sons equally divided the inheritance and principalities of their father.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.
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I love Felicity Jones. It was funny because I went to go see the 'Rogue One' set, and I was like, 'Oh my God, I love you.' And she's so tiny, and elegant, and she's just so small. Everyone's so much smaller than they seem.
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I'd done an EP, and nothing came from that, and I didn't know where to go from there.
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I wrote 'Wish U Were Here' for Cody Simpson, and he invited me to perform with him on tour and be in his music video. He was shy at first. I think it's the surfer boy in him that makes him so mellow.
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Young people want to work.
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Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.
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I think it's really important to have a life and have interests outside of this movie business, and not rely on this business to validate you as a human being. If you do that, you're really in a dangerous spot.
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The national interest is predetermined by geopolitics or the history of a country. Important political leaders never just followed their interests - they were concerned about the interests of their people.
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It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.
