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“Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your bellybutton.”
-Lillian Gish, schooling an insolent cameraman who kept placing his camera too low for her tastes (via ltgauctions)
my parents met lillian gish when my mom was super pregnant with me, so lils and i are pretty much blood sisters.
also, check out broken blossoms if you want to see an intense (albeit fairly racist) silent movie.