Mary Astor
Mary Astor
Mary Astorwas an American actress. She is best remembered for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth3 May 1906
CityQuincy, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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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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to move the wheels of justice is a ponderous business.
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Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence.
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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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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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the reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer ...
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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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Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.
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The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.
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A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
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Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it.
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Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.
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It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.
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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?