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

Ben Hecht

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 ran everywhere in the city like a fly buzzing in the works of a clock, tasted more than any fit belly could hold, learned not to sleep, and buried myself in a tick-tock of whirling hours that still echo in me.
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Buzzing Clock Everywhere Hour Learn
The producer, director and stars are the geniuses who get the hosannas when it’s a hit. Theirs are also the heads that are mounted on spears when it’s a flop.
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Director Flop Geniuses Head Producer Spear
Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
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Art Fall Medicine Writing
I’ll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.
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Mad Secret World
He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
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June Life Love Summer
For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.
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Effort Games Years
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
I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.
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Admire Always Dislike Obvious Work
In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
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Hollywood Names Thirty
There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.
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Age Allies Intellectual
Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.
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Day Love Men Valentines
A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
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Connected Men Stupidest
When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance.
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Blessing Money People
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
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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Humorous Moving Time

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