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People’s sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.

Ben Hecht

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
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Dubious Hollywood Honor
Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.
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Giving Loyalty Men
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
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Diversity Justice Safety
The rest of the fraternity is deadwood. Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.
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Between Curious Difference Good Mark Same Writer
He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
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June Life Love Summer
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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Humorous Moving Time
A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
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Connected Men Stupidest
Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world is round.
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Political Politics World
They’re a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time – and they’re phonies, all of them. And I head the list…their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.
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Fighting Heart Kindness
Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you’re in over your head.
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Fate Moving People
There’s one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die – their silence.
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Death Friends Old Silence
The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can’t have both.
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Art Mass World
I’m a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
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Brain Hollywood Sports
I see a lot of fog and a few lights. I like it when life’s hidden. It gives you a chance to imagine nice things, nicer than they are.
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Fog Light Nice
A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.
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Fake Men People Thinking
I discovered early in my movie work that a movies never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.
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Directors Men Movie

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