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I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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Church Nylon Religion
The best director is the one you don’t see.
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Directors Inspirational Motivational
I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.
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Eggs Funny Twenties
Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You’ve got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house.
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Hit House Morning Rain Writing
Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood’s Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town.
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Fabulous Mean Towns
One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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Enough Hundred One
She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift.
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Believe Thinking Years
The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven’s “Pastoral.” A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.
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Country People Ring Smell Sound Stationery Telephone
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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Mediocre Track Undoubtedly
I hate that word. It’s return–a return to the millions of people who’ve never forgiven me for deserting the screen.
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Hate People Return Screen
If you don’t like what you’re doing, it’s unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.
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First Firsts Own Unlikely
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Funny History Luck
Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
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Able Actors Camera Writing
Writers became much more important when sound came in, but they’ve had to put up a valiant fight to get the credit they deserve.
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Deserve Fight Important Writer
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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Best Things Done
Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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Country Hollywood Killing People

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