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The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.


Ben Hecht

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If he is w...
BEN HECHT Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS) I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, l...
ANGELA CARTER I am quite sane, according to my three distinct personalities and my seven passive ones.
THE PAPER DOLL In the morning when I wake
And the sun is coming through,
Oh, you fill my lungs with sweet...
THE PAPER KITES The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowher...
IAN HUNTER It has been a great experience to act in Hollywood movies with actors like Ben Kingsley.
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ART COOPER Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley ...
JOHN SCALZI And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS The scales of justice are tilted by money
It's rather ironic but far from funny
The powerf...
JUSTIN WETCH I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first sto...
SIDNEY SHELDON We were charged $150 for putting a piece of tissue paper in a carton.
BILL CHAPMAN Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER The chains of love are never binding as when the links are made of gold.
ROYALL TYLER In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
GAYLE GARDNER As a writer, Harold has been unswerving for 50 years,
TOM STOPPARD As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
MARK MOTHERSBAUGH As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
ALBERT J. NOCK Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
DAVID KOECHNER And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different...
CRAIG GROESCHEL It hurts all the time, as anyone with a torn rotator cuff knows.
ANDREA MITCHELL The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them togethe...
ALBERT CAMUS Hollywood has always seen Sondheim as a caviar brand unsuitable for a popcorn industry.
RICHARD CORLISS As far as fame, the everlasting fame thing. I used to think that was important for a writer... the d...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON Hollywood, it has treated me so nicely, I am ready to faint! As soon as I see Hollywood, I love it.
CARMEN MIRANDA As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.
GARRY TRUDEAU As far as festivals, nothing tops Cannes.
SASHA LANE A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.
JOYCE MEYER Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
DICK VAN DYKE Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
JEF RASKIN As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes.
JON BATISTE As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.
TROY BROWN That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The surrounding nature is the best erudite master to teach us the basics of living.
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CARY ELWES Your image is as stained on my heart as the very tissue that forms it.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER I don't regret anything I do, ever, whether articles I've done or things I've said. And ...
EVA LONGORIA For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
CATHERINE DRINKER BOWEN For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right wor...
CATHERINE DRINKER BOWEN For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
CATHERINE BOWEN Aw, sad face. I came up with that totally off the cuff. No props for off the cuff?
CHLOE NEILL Games have has as much an impact on Hollywood filmmaking as MTV music videos did.
BRUCE FEIRSTEIN As far as working out, I know exactly what I'm doing.
EVANDER HOLYFIELD As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.
DAVY JONES As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.
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ALLEN WEINSTEIN Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.
MARLON BRANDO A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
STANLEY KUBRICK Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
WALTER SMITH Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
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RICK YANCEY As a Senator I am opposed to duelling. As Ben. Wade, I recognize the code.
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JACK KEROUAC As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
VINCE MCMAHON In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
KANYE WEST As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
NATALIE GULBIS We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.
SETH BERKLEY Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
JOSEPH STALIN As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.
J. P. MORGAN Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
THOMAS CARLYLE What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b...
STEPHEN R. COVEY As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland.
DONALD TRUMP You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.
ADAM LAMBERT As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.
ALESSANDRO NIVOLA I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.
ETHEL MERMAN Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
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ERICH VON STROHEIM New links must be forged as old ones rust.
JANE HOWARD New links must be forged as old ones rust
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How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
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BEN SWEETLAND You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the pas...
BEN HARPER If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on educa...
BEN CARSON Success is a journey, not a destination.
BEN SWEETLAND We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.
BEN WEININGER No one will do it for you.
BEN STEIN I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
BEN KINGSLEY There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tort...
BEN STEIN I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I t...
BEN AARONOVITCH But I do hate him as I hate the devil.
BEN JONSON You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
BEN STEIN If he were To be made honest by an act of parliament I should not alter in my faith of him.
BEN JONSON Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known. They that love mirth, let them heartily drink, ...
BEN JONSON Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.
BEN FRANKLIN Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
BEN FRANKLIN It's just kind of surreal. We're trying not to think too far ahead but we know we have a lot of work...
BEN LINDSEY