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Quote by Ethel Barrymore
There is as much difference between the stage and the film as betw

There is as much difference between the stage and the film as between a piano and a violin. Normally you cant become a virtuoso in both. – Ethel Barrymore

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The people are unreal. The flowers are unreal, they dont smell. The food is unreal, it doesnt taste of anything. The whole place is a glaring, gaudy, nightmarish set, built up in the desert. – Ethel Barrymore

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Film / Filmmaking / Movies
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Ethel Barrymore
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Tis God gives skill, but not without mens hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivariuss violins without Antonio. – George Eliot

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I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and one that is broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. – Jean Rhys

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