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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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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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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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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. – Billy Wilder

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My passion is doing movies, so as long as I keep doing that I will be happy. – Vanessa Hudgens

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I manage to hide in my movies. – Liev Schreiber

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What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that theyre sort of larger than life and I think Im still suffering from that reaction. – Guy Ritchie

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