It is impossible to get ...

It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.
 Norma Shearer

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I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
 Norma Shearer
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
Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.
 Norma Shearer
An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.
 Norma Shearer