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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.

Alfred Hitchcock

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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Funny Media
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
Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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Football Important Play
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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One Liner Revenge Sweet
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Himself Tears
In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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Creation Director Fiction God Life Material
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Enemy Food Wine
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Funny Happiness
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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Book Poor Reading
I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Egg Fear Worst
Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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Affection Alone Death Encouragement Food Live Man
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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Ideas Live People Time
The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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End Film Myself
In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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Goodness Love Marriage Relationship
The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Film Photograph Silence

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