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  • Ben Hecht Quote - The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can’t have both.
  • Ben Hecht Quote - The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can’t have both.
  • Ben Hecht Quote - The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can’t have both.
  • Ben Hecht Quote - The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can’t have both.
  • Ben Hecht Quote - The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can’t have both.
  • Ben Hecht Quote - 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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The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can’t have both.

Ben Hecht

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    Out of the seventy movies I’ve written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.

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