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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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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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'm an entrepreneur. I always have been. I am curious, and I enjoy solving problems.
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On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine-cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathena.
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I was in art school, and we had all these random classes. We'd listen to a lot of Bollywood. I'd listen to Spanish music - and I don't even speak Spanish, but Hector Lavoe is amazing - we listened to French music like Edith Piaf. She's tight. I like cool vocal inflections; I like cool sounds. I pretty much listen to anything I think is good.
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I tend to get cast as a certain type of quiet, almost introverted person who's strong on the inside, but the characters are so very different I don't see it as any kind of typecasting.
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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.
