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"I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book."
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"One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not necessarily the most useful thing to do. The Greeks themselves chose the ideal over the real in their geometry and demonstrated very well that far more could be achieved by consideration of abstract line and form than by a study of the real lines and forms of the world; the greater understanding achieved through abstraction could be applied most usefully to the very reality that was ignored in the process of gaining knowledge."
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"Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him."

"The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour."

"I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients."

"I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille."

"The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners."

"Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent."

"Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy."
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