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If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.

Billy Wilder

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
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
Make subtlety obvious.
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Make Obvious Subtlety
My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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English Mixtures Schwarzenegger
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Funny History Luck
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
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
The best director is the one you don’t see.
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Directors Inspirational Motivational
I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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Like Made Picture
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Inspirational Motivational Movie
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
She may be a wispy, thin little thing, but when you see that girl, you know you’re really in the presence of something. In that league there’s only ever been Garbo, and the other Hepburn, and maybe Bergman. It’s a rare quality, but boy, do you know when you’ve found it.
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League Little Understand Really Something
One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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Enough Hundred One
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.
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Fall Money Paper Travel
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
Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Gender Nobody Perfect Well

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