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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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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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Ive played a lot of mothers in my movies. – Vera Farmiga

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I grew up in Toronto and as long as I can remember, as long as there was cable, even those old cable boxes that were wired to the TV, there have been Bollywood movies on Toronto TV. – Mike Myers

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There are a lot of movies Ive done that come and go, and dont really establish a growing fan base. – Seann William Scott

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Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way. – David Lynch

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