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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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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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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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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Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.
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Our society loves raw character; we love raw women. We don't love our mother because she is hot and sexy: we love our mother because she is our mother. We love our granny because she is our granny. We value her. We don't remember anyone's face from our childhood; we love our granny's face.
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And I have known the eyes already, known them all - The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,Then how should I beginTo spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
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I made a life for myself in Africa that was as far as you could possibly get from art school at Yale.
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We were film geeks. We devoured everything: really obscure art films, foreign films. We were the kind of guys that lived at the Cinematheque. But at the end of the day, your favorite movies are like everybody else's favorite movies. Because those are the movies that become a touch point where you can connect to other people.
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At bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems.
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No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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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.
