"I had no particular desire to be a……" — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
"I had no particular desire to be a personality like my father, nor was I equipped to be one. I was determined to be my own man, although having the Fairbanks name did make it easier to get into an office to see someone."
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13 Quotes by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. has 13 quotes on this site.
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I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero…
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I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed.
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I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping.
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The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in 'Mommie Dearest' is not the Joan Crawford I knew back when.
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Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four…
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I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very…
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I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such…
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If you really want to know someone, you must see their emotions off guard. That's how I know Joan Crawford…
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In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with…
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My father and Mary Pickford were the reigning stars of not just Hollywood but of the world. Well, to bear…
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What has always been at the heart of film making was the value of a script. It was really the…
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I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
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I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated…
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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