“ In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world. ”
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“ In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel. ”
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“ In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world. ”
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“ When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance. He becomes a source of blessings rather than wages… ”
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“ In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel. ”
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“ Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to. ”
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“ I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt. ”
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“ The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both. ”
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“ We are going to make sure that there is high-speed broadband available to everyone, and affordable to people historically kept out of it. It means they have not just access, but can also understand how to buy low-cost, affordable computers. ”
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“ I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer. ”
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“ Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. ”
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“ Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos. ”
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“ I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain. ”
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“ Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them — as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people. ”
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“ I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer. ”
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“ We are going to make sure that there is high-speed broadband available to everyone, and affordable to people historically kept out of it. It means they have not just access, but can also understand how to buy low-cost, affordable computers. ”
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“ We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members of a family among whom we were privileged to move. There was no caste system, moral or social, in our manners. ”
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“ In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world. ”
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“ Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to. ”
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“ When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance. He becomes a source of blessings rather than wages… ”
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“ Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos. ”
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“ We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members of a family among whom we were privileged to move. There was no caste system, moral or social, in our manners. ”
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“ Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene. ”
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“ Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them — as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people. ”
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“ Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos. ”
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