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  • I think Oscar Wilde wrote a poem about a robin who loved a white rose. He loved it so much that he pierced his breast and let his heart's blood turn the white rose red. Maybe this sounds very sentimental, but for anybody who has loved a career as much as I've loved mine, there can be no short cuts.

  • I saw Hollywood born and I've seen it die...

    Hollywood   Saws   Born  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • ...I'm thirteen years old, and I think I'm at the crossroads of my life. I've got to make good between now and the time I'm twenty, and I have only seven years to do it in. Besides, I'm the father of my family and I've got to earn all the money I can.

    Mary Pickford (1955). “Sunshine and shadow”
  • The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

  • Today is a new day.You will get out of it just what you put into it.

  • It's not the falling down that counts. It's the getting up.

  • 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.

    Simplicity   Way   Silent  
    "Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood". Book by Eileen Whitfield, 1997.
  • One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

    Loss   Cutting   Men  
    Mary Pickford (1955). “Sunshine and shadow”
  • Talking pictures are like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.

    "Mary Pickford Sees Talkies as Lipstick on Milo". Los Angeles Times, p. 1. Cf. "Los Angeles Times", 20 March 1934, p. A4: "Talking pictures are like lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.", March 18, 1934.
  • 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.

    "Why Not Try God?", Chapter 6 (newspaper serial) in St. Petersburg Times, sect. 2, p. 3, news.google.com. January 25, 1936.
  • "Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

    "Why Not Try God?". "St. Petersburg Times" Newspaper, sect. 2, (p. 3), January 25, 1936.
  • After Theda Bara appeared in A Fool There Was, a vampire wave surged over the country. Women appeared in vampire gowns, pendant earrings, and even young girls were attempting to change from frank, open-eyed ingenues to the almond-eyed, carmine-lipped woman of subtlety and mystery.

    Girl   Country   Vampire  
  • Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it...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.

    Mistake   Fall   New Day  
  • You may have a fresh start anytime you choose.

  • If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You can start over any moment you choose.

  • Failure is not falling down, it is not getting up again

  • Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something

  • 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.

    "How Mary Pickford Stays Young", Reader's Digest, Vol. 5, 1926.
  • Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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