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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.

Alfred Hitchcock

I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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Book Fiction Photograph Reading Result
There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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Blessing Eyes Win
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Cut Funny Myself Perfection
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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Death Funny Sarcastic
Self-plagiarism is style.
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Design Film One Liner
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Character Myself Writing
Never turn your back on a friend.
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Cheating Friendship
San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Death Goodness Mystery Place
There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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Funny Goodness Sea Simplicity
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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Funny Need Stupidity
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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Death Place Simplicity
A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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Action Grow Up Maturity Mystery Woman Word
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Director Film God
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Funny Happiness
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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Change Habit Invention Media People
The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Film Photograph Silence

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