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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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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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Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life. – Jane Seymour

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I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself. – Orlando Bloom

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movies

As a kid, I liked the Halloween movies and Nightmare On Elm Street and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult, I really dont watch much horror, to be honest. – Corey Feldman

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movies

I didnt have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies. – Jodie Foster

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movies

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