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If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?

Billy Wilder

My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
BILLY WILDER

English Mixtures Schwarzenegger
I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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Church Nylon Religion
They’ve tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won’t work. She was an original.
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Keep Manufacture Original Trying
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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Directing Directors Film Sycophants
God save me from myself.
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Catchy Save Me
You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that’s the bunk. It’s little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.
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Animal Country Elephants
I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it’s getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous.
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Act Appalled Courageous Get Perhaps Say
[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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Life Music Sarcastic
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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Mediocre Track Undoubtedly
After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school, can spell, maybe even plays the piano.
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Class Girl Real Somebody Stars
Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Men Perfect Wells
An actor entering through the door, you’ve got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you’ve got a situation.
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Actors Doors Entering Situation
If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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Bad Noses Smell
I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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Like Made Picture
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
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Cutting Finals Nine
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

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