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"From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture."
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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977."
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"We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising."
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"The first is last, and the last is first."
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"I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA."
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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."
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"I think worship is a lifestyle, first of all."
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"Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries."
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"My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing."
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"After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried."
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"In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it."
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"As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation."
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"The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event."
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"Nobody gets anything for nothing."
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"The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners."
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"I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford."
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"All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in."
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"I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European."
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