Mary Astor Quotes

#1. Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

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#2. It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

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#3. Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

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#4. The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer ...

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#5. A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.

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#6. To move the wheels of justice is a ponderous business.

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#7. The boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.

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#8. A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

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#9. Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks.

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#10. Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it.

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#11. Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence.

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#12. There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor Type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor?

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#13. Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.

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#14. I don't think Garbo with her clothes off, panting in a brass bed, would have been more sexy than she was.

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#15. The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.

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