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Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.


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OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND When I was five, I discovered a secret box that contained Mummy's stage makeup. It was like find...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it freque...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought &...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I don't feel the cold. It's my British blood!
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a grea...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what t...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a ne...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's goin...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an ene...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during 'Captain Blood.' I thought he was absolutely sm...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That au...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is ...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless ho...
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