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If you don’t like what you’re doing, it’s unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.

Billy Wilder

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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Mediocre Track Undoubtedly
I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it’s getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous.
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Act Appalled Courageous Get Perhaps Say
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Funny History Luck
Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.
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Around Fabulous Mean Met Towns
[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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Life Music Sarcastic
We’re making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.
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Class Middle Normal People Restaurant
If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.
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Hate Seriously Taken
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
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Aunt Hold Pay Punctuation
Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood’s Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town.
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Fabulous Mean Towns
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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Firsts Real Writing
If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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Bad Noses Smell
I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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Great Year Hollywood Films Movie
I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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Church Nylon Religion
The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.
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Grandmother Kings Old Thinking Tree
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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Best Things Done
You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that’s the bunk. It’s little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.
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Animal Country Elephants

If you don’t like what you’re doing, it’s unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.

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