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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.
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English Mixtures Schwarzenegger
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
One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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Enough Hundred One
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
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
I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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Great Year Hollywood Films Movie
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
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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Dream Good Inspiration Morning
We’re making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.
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Class Middle Normal People Restaurant
[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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Life Music Sarcastic
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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Best Things Done
Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Gender Nobody Perfect Well
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
I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.
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Eggs Funny Twenties
God save me from myself.
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Catchy Save Me
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

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