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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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MARY SHELLEY Both my parents were agnostic. My mother was kind of a Buddhist. She had some spiritual tendencies, ...
MARY KARR The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
MARY BROWNE Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roam...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
MARY SHELLEY For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the mo...
MARY ASTELL