Self-plagiarism is style.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKThe paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim – to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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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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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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