- Hole
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
- Herd
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.
- Away
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
- Lies
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- Nov 07, 2020
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
- Hollywood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
- Prejudice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
- Art World
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political rallies or in fortuneteller parlors and on the shoot-the-chutes. To these millions, the movies are a sort of boon - a gaudier version of religion.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
In pre-movie days, the business of peddling lies about life was spotty and unorganized. It was carried on by the cheaper magazines, dime novels, the hinterland preachers and whooping politicians.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Producers are men who will keep their heads in the noisy presence of writers and directors and not be carried away by art in any of its subversive guises. Their task is to guard against the unusual. They are the trusted loyalists of cliche.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have lived in other cities but been inside of only one. I once wore all the windows of Chicago and all its doorways on a key ring. Salons, mansions, alleys, courtrooms, depots, factories, hotels, police cells, the lake front, the rooftops and the sidewalks were my haberdashery.
- Good Writer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland, there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit and talent... Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's.
- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kindness, tolerance, integrity, modesty, generosity - these are attributes that events permit us. They are our holiday moods, and we are as proud of them as of the fine clothes we have hung away to wear on occasions.
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or respect for what was in others.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020