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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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I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters. – Julie Bowen

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So, yes, theres nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies. – Jodie Foster

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Its like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. Theyre scared, but theyre not going to get hurt. – Vincent DOnofrio

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