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Mary Astor Biography

Mary Astor (born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke; May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987) was an American actress. She is best remembered for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941).

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A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.

Child, Children, Country, Memories, Memory, Person

to move the wheels of justice is a ponderous business.

Business, Justice, Move, Moving, Wheels

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

Cute, Emotion, Engine, Fuel, Like

the boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.

Away, Boys, Laughing, Laughter, Mystery, Stilled

The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.

Catches, Fish, Fishing, He Man, Men

Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.

Audiences, Bed, Horse, Kissing, Movie, Tired

There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor?

Actor, Actors, Astor, Cinema, Funny, Young

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

Asking, Asking Questions, Gone, Innocence, Start

Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks.

Beautiful, Blunt, Bruises, Cutting, Knife, Sex

Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence.

Adversity, Constant, Grew, Ingenious, Problem

The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.

Pain, People, Reminder, Sympathy, Worse

Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it.

Appreciate, Order, Threatened

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

Differences, Instead, Journey, Sameness, Sentimental

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

Movie, Play, Plays, Waiting, Waits, Writing

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