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

Billy Wilder

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 just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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Like Made Picture
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
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Aunt Hold Pay Punctuation
I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.
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Chamberlain Events Preliminaries Spain
[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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Life Music Sarcastic
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Funny History Luck
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
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Hiding Plot Subtle
I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that we’re not making a picture for Harvard Law School.
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Class Deal Law School Underestimate
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
The best director is the one you don’t see.
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Directors Inspirational Motivational
If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.
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Hate Seriously Taken
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
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.
BILLY WILDER

Grandmother Kings Old Thinking Tree
If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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Funny Inspiring Sarcastic
God save me from myself.
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Catchy Save Me

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

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