"Every actor has a natural animosity toward every……" — Louise Brooks
"Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead"
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17 Quotes by Louise Brooks
Louise Brooks has 17 quotes on this site.
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I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
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The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of…
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In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
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There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.
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Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.
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I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it…
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Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't…
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When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts. I was wearing sleek suits…
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Love is a publicity stunt, and making love, after the first curious raptures, is only another petulant way to pass…
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Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.
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After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so…
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The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.
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More Absent Quotes
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one of 320 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in…
— Hannah Arendt
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The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust…
— Annie Besant
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of…
— Geraldine Brooks
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will…
— John Calvin
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Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are…
— Ronald Reagan
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All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of…
— Germaine Greer
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When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and…
— Herophilos
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When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade…
— R. T. Kendall
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with…
— Lucretius
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