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Quote by Mary Pickford
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo. – Mary Pickford

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Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down. – Mary Pickford

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Failure
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Mary Pickford
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You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. – Mary Pickford

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Failure
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Mary Pickford
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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. – Mary Pickford

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Cinema
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Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and thats not fair. How can you tell whats best and whats worst from these awards? Were talking about art. – Javier Bardem

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movies

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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movies

Im happy with my place in the firmament here. I like to produce movies and thats where I want to be. – Joel Silver

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movies

Movies are like magic tricks. – Jeff Bridges

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movies

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