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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.

Abraham Polonsky

If you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
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Active Allow Anybody Danger Day Follow Killed Lucky
Money has no moral opinions.
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Advice Ignore Money Moral No Opinion
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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Directing Flow Going Idea Image Personality Space Total View
I’ll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!
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Betrayal Brother Cain Hand Kill Loyalty Rather
A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn’t have said.
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Man Remember Rest Said Spent Trying
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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Important Intended July Million Money Street Tomorrow Wall
D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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Country East I PIcked Side
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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Ago Boy Children Growing Move Nice Twenty Up Wanted Year
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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Ago Celebrate Finished Holiday Life Long Something Time
It’s an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That’s what directing is.
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Flow Idea Object Personality Representation Total World
It’s perversion. Don’t you see what it is? It’s not natural. To go to great expense for something you want, that’s natural. To reach out to take it, that’s human, that’s natural.
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Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people…And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.
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Everyone General Grateful People Political
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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Coffee Day Fight Fighting Hundred Kid Out Professionally Thousand
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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Brother Cheating Deliberately Pleasure
Do you know what it’s like to love and be alone?
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Fame Fight Fighter Hobby Interest Know Money Rule
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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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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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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