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Norma Shearer
American
Actress
About the author
I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
Norma Shearer,
American
Actress
#Mother
#Father
The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.
Norma Shearer,
American
Actress
#Day
#Independence
#Man
#Woman
#Morals
#Yesterday
Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.
Norma Shearer,
American
Actress
Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!
Norma Shearer,
American
Actress
#Public
It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.
Norma Shearer,
American
Actress
#Enemies
Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.
Norma Shearer,
American
Actress
#Being
#Ecstasy
A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.
Norma Shearer,
American
Actress
#Today
#Woman
An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.
Norma Shearer,
American
Actress
#May
#Woman
#Adventure