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If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, 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 Why Not Try God? (1934)

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The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. [...] It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.

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.

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theater for? An emotional exercise. And no preachment.

[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.

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