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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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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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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If a man has the assurance within his own heart that he is worthy, and that he is laboring to the best of his ability to do good, he can stand up under the condemnation, the criticism and the censure of those by whom he is surrounded.
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Because I would just tell everyone it was going to be great and just put that belief in them.
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I used to eat, like, a whole Entenmann's cake at one time with a half-gallon of milk.
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I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.
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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.
