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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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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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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I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first theyre going to love Harry Potter, or they may love The Hunger Games, but after that, theyre going to love the act of reading and wonder, What else can I read? – Gary Ross

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movies

Ive found that if you wear a beret, people think youre either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies. – Ernie Harwell

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movies

I cast unusual people in my movies. – Albert Brooks

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movies

I love doing kind of more kiddish-oriented movies, but I also love doing adult things. And I think its fun to do a mix. – Emma Roberts

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movies

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A person who cant pay gets another person who cant pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It dont make either of them able to do a walking-match. – Charles Dickens

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I want to initiate a change in society in the long term. – Francois Hollande

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You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give. – Author Unknown

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