"The tragedy of film history is that it……" — Louise Brooks
"The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history."
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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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Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead
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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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More Fabricated Quotes
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one of 48 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.
— Theodore Parker
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It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They…
— Dan Barker
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Today, almost half a century after the publication of the Encyclical [of Pius IX], new knowledge has led to the…
— Pope John Paul II
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...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and…
— Toby Lester
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Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the…
— Frank N. Ikard
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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected…
— Camille Paglia
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All the proffered evidence that America was attacked by Muslims on 9/11, when subjected to critical scrutiny, appears to have…
— David Ray Griffin
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The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely…
— Rem Koolhaas
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How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. We succeeded because the time…
— Bernard Nathanson
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When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and…
— Paul Brunton
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One thing is very clear: the safest place and the best protection against the moral and spiritual diseases is a…
— Boyd K. Packer
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