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"All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year."
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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."

"Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad."

"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom."
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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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