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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
Bernardo Bertolucci
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The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice what's around you, and you get very curious about how things work. How things interrelate. It's as simple as seeing a bug that intrigues you. You want to know where it goes at night; who its friends are; what it eats.
David Cronenberg
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You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally.
Michael Cunningham
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Hilda's eye, roaming over the folded newspaper, fell on the weather forecast. "Fair to-morrow," she said, "and colder." "That doesn't stand for much. They said the same thing yesterday. It's a worse gamble than wheat."
Samuel Merwin (writer)
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Dysphagia is the medical term for not being able to swallow, and I know that there are two kinds of dysphagia: oropharyngeal and esophageal. But maybe there is also a third kind of dysphagia that comes when your heart breaks into pieces. I can't swallow because I have that kind.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
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The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn't write.
Sol Saks
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It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
Jules Furthman
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There was laughter in the back of the theatre, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.
George S. Kaufman
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When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.
Lenore Coffee
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We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn't hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?
Richard Morgan
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People here always want to grab a simple camera and a table light, get their cousin and shoot a movie. You can't say that's wrong, but it's not cinema.
Usama Mukwaya
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There is something missing in black America, and symptoms of the illness are in its music.
Nelson George
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dear god, whose name i do not know. thank you for my life. i forgot... how BIG... thank you. thank you for my life.
John Patrick Shanley
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I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.
Roberto Rossellini
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She had large, rather beautiful hazel eyes which she blinked rapidly from time to time. This habit gave her a timorous yet slightly defiant demeanour: the sort of girl who made a career out of being insecure.
Caroline Graham
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There is no better xsample of a goody-goody than fotherington-tomas in the world in space. You kno he is the one who sa Hullo Clouds Hullo Sky and skip about like a girly.
Geoffrey Willans
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Nothing looks more foolish than tradition to those who have none.
Pete Dexter
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So if you don't have money to offer to people, you must strike their imagination with something as nice as you can think of.
Martin Villeneuve
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Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare.
Lawrence Wright
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Our men want to lock up our minds.
But how do you lock up something invisible?
Ousmane Sembène
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Who's that little brunette?" Suzanne asked. "I hate little petite types. Gregory doesn't look right with someone petite. Little face, little hands, little dainty feet." "Big boobs," Beth said, glancing up.
Mary Claire Helldorfer
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Some day, when things are tough, maybe you can ask the boys to go in there and win just one for the Gipper!
Robert Buckner
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The superstitions of today are the scientific facts of tomorrow.
John L. Balderston
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It is clear enough by now to most people that the camera never lies is a foolish saying. Yet it is doubtful whether most people realize how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is.
James Agee
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I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night
Alive as you and me.
Says I, 'But Joe, you're ten years dead.'
'I never died,' says he.
Alfred Hayes
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