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Norma Shearer Quotes

Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: August 11, 1902 - June 12, 1983

Topics

You Never See Finished Public After

After 25 years sitting on my own in a room, I was looking for a more companionable job and wanted to work more collaboratively. I've also been very lucky in my career, with good advances and multibook deals. But there is some extent to which I worried that I was writing for the contract and not for the impulse of the thing itself.

Work Good Job Writing Looking Lucky

My mother battled cancer for 12 years before losing her fight.

Mother Fight Losing Years Cancer

I did a terrible job of composing myself. I was a spoiled brat from Long Island who benefitted from the energy of New York.

Myself Job New York Energy Long New

I am humbled to have been asked by President-elect Trump to serve as Attorney General of the United States.

I Am Humbled United Serve Been

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Win Honor Cheating Fail Would Even

Lady Gaga is phenomenal. From the first day I met her, she was lightning in a bottle.

Day Lady She First Lightning Her

Read, listen to and watch everything you can. Explore the corners of popular culture and the arts. And, of course, these days you have to stay maniacally plugged in to the cutting edge of whatever technology is taking your profession into the future - otherwise you're toast.

Future Technology Culture You Edge

I married the man I love when the state of California said I could. We made a family through adoption, as New York State said we could. From the outside, our family - two dads, two sons via adoption - seems like an experiment, but what family isn't an experiment?

Family Love Man New York New Said

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

Writing Fantasy Never Secret Always

Say 'Toronto' or 'Ontario,' and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.

Christopher Hitchens

Queen Thought America Say Street

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.

Christopher Reeve

Hard Might Been Resist Harp

You don't throw your quarterback under the bus, the guy who makes you who you are.

You Bus Quarterback Guy Throw Your

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