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Agnes George DeMille: I learned 3...

Agnes George DeMille: I learned 3...

I learned 3 important things in college -- to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep any time...

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Groucho Marx: A clown is...

Groucho Marx: A clown is...

A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast.

Source: In Webster's...

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Robert Bresson: When you do...

Robert Bresson: When you do...

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best --that is...

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Robert Bresson: Films can only...

Robert Bresson: Films can only...

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they...

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Billy Wilder: I've met a...

Billy Wilder: I've met a...

I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.

Source:...

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Huddie Leadbelly Ledbetter: Look a here...

Huddie Leadbelly Ledbetter: Look a here...

Look a here people, listen to me,
Don't try to find no home in Washington, D.C.
Lord, it's a bourgeois town,...

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Katharine Hepburn: Enemies are so...

Katharine Hepburn: Enemies are so...

Enemies are so stimulating.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Whoopi Goldberg: When you are...

Whoopi Goldberg: When you are...

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like...

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Lily Tomlin: Instead of working...

Lily Tomlin: Instead of working...

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest -- then we...

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Bill Cosby: You can turn...

Bill Cosby: You can turn...

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find the humor in anything, you can survive...

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Antonin Artaud: It is not...

Antonin Artaud: It is not...

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time...

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Jean Anouilh: All evil comes...

Jean Anouilh: All evil comes...

All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

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Jean Anouilh: Talent is like...

Jean Anouilh: Talent is like...

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

Source: In NY Times, 2...

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Martial: Lawyers are men...

Martial: Lawyers are men...

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Douglas Jerrold: Happiness grows at...

Douglas Jerrold: Happiness grows at...

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

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Louise A Bogan: I hope that...

Louise A Bogan: I hope that...

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling about.

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Wendy Wasserstein: You're the unfortunate...

Wendy Wasserstein: You're the unfortunate...

You're the unfortunate contradiction in terms -- a serious good person.

Source: The...

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Harold Pinter: I tend to...

Harold Pinter: I tend to...

I tend to believe that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth . . . certainly greater than sex,...

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Terence Rattigan: To face life...

Terence Rattigan: To face life...

To face life without hope can mean to live without despair.

Source: The Deep Blue...

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Robert E Sherwood: The trouble with...

Robert E Sherwood: The trouble with...

The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.

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