"Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me."

-- Maureen O'Hara

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“I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.”

Source : "How Torrey DeVitto Stabilized Her 'Crazy' Career". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. March 15, 2013.
“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”
“What is superstition , but misguided, unobjective science? And when it comes down to that, is it to be wondered if people grasp at superstition in this rotten, hate-filled, half-doomed world of today? Lord knows, I'd welcome the blackest of black magic, if it could do anything to stave off the atom bomb.”

Source : Fritz Leiber (2014). “Conjure Wife”, p.18, Open Road Media
“He (God) never comes to those who do not wait.”
“The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true. The specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning.”

Source : "The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy" (1948)
“I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.”
“Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.”
“Neither my great-grandfather an NAACP founder, my grandfather Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. an NAACP leader, my father Rev. A. D. Williams King, nor my uncle Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. embraced the homosexual agenda that the current NAACP is attempting to label as a civil rights agenda,”

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