Creative Quotations from . . .
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
(1909-1993) born on
Feb 11
US writer, director. His films included "All about Eve," 1950 and " The Quiet American ," 1958.
         
   
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F
All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

R
"Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy night."
A
The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.
N
I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.
K
[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.
 


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:
R: Spoken by Bette Davis in 'All About Eve'
A: In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
N: Washington "Post," 1 Jun 86
K: The New York Times, 4/25/1982
 

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