"In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers."

-- Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

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“The only distinct meaning of the word "natural" is stated, fixed, or settled; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, i.e. to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once.”
“In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.”
“Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.”
“Never break or fold, that's what it takes to be major.”
“It's the fact that you can reduce my whole life to one word, whatever it is, my entire career, my service to my country, my academic rigor, my courage in going to interview terrorists, and refugee camps, and third-world prisons.”

Source : Source: www.vanityfair.com
“There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.”
“The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed.”

Source : Roger Housden (2007). “Ten Poems to Change Your Life”, p.28, Harmony
“I'd never even sung in the shower, I'm too mortified. But once I got over the initial fear it was kind of enjoyable. Sondheim's melodies and lyrics are a real pleasure to tromp around in, it's really beautiful stuff.”

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