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Billy Wilder

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
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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Fire Playing Writing
If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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Bad Noses Smell
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
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Believe People World
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
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
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
My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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English Mixtures Schwarzenegger
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
Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book?
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Book Director Fighting Stupid Theory
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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Mediocre Track Undoubtedly
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
Make subtlety obvious.
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Make Obvious Subtlety
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.
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Grandmother Kings Old Thinking Tree
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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Dream Good Inspiration Morning
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

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