"I have gone through a long apprenticeship. I……" — Gloria Swanson
"I have gone through a long apprenticeship. I have gone through enough of being a nobody. I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it."
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54 Quotes by Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson has 54 quotes on this site.
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I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.
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All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.
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Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the…
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I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.
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After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.
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It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard'…
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By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.
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If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.
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So they were turning, after all - those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma…
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I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
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Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions…
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I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.
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For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from…
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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no…
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Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our…
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For the production of man a different apprenticeship [from forests] was needed to sharpen the wits and quicken the higher…
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A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give…
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As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but…
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I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's…
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Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's…
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Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.
— Katherine Anne Porter
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Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was…
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Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write…
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