Do you know what it’s like to love and be alone?
ABRAHAM POLONSKYBut to get your pleasure from not taking, from cheating yourself deliberately like my brother did today, from not getting, from not taking.
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.
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D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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Don’t you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there’s nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
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What do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.
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If you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
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This is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars–an excitingday in a man’s life. The enterprise was slightly illegal.
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Kids win this’n’that every day. Thousands of them. One out of a hundred fights professionally. One out of a thousand’s worth watchin’, one out of a million’s worth coffee and doughnuts.
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First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space.
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But to get your pleasure from not taking, from cheating yourself deliberately like my brother did today, from not getting, from not taking.
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I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
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I don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
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Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal.
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