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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.

Alfred Hitchcock

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
If I won’t be myself, who will?
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Instagram Captions Myself One Liner
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Drama Perspective Real
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
I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Ethics Myself
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Funny Happiness
A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
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Cook Film Oppression Woman
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
Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Fear Funny Wake Up Writing
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Humor Myself Value
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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Fear Future Hurt Oneself Past Protection Thinking
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
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Fill Film Photograph Reality Success
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
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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Best Himself
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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Art Film Food Price Worth

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