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Quotes by Screenwriter
"Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead."
"Once in his lifetime every artist feels the hand of God and creates something that comes alive."
"A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place."
"I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that."
"Oh, I realize it's a penny here and a penny there, but look at me: I've worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty."
"When a girl's under 21, she's protected by law. When she's over 65, she's protected by nature. Anywhere in between she's fair game."
"Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man."
"Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts."
"We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer sufficient to bring the dead back to life. We must create from the beginning, we must build up our own creature, build it up from nothing."
"One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life."
"A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face."
"Whoever eats anything at a wedding luncheon? They make the food out of papier mache. My salad had been used four or five times this week."
"Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?"
"You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here."
"Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other."
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"Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive."
"The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour."
"As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses."
"An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy."
"She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer."
"Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt."
"Never apologize, mister. It's a sign of weakness."
"The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons."
"Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion."
"You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow."
"We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right."
"Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse."
"Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive."
"Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit."
"Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom."
"The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror."
"Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet."
"There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him."
"There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study."
"Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn."
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"If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them."
"If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?"
"You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors."
"So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives."
"I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can."
"I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like."
"Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating."
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