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"And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood."
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"I don't think about Hollywood at all."
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"My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out."
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"In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies."
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"It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out."
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"The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do."
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"Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood."
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"I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood."
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"What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait."
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"I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one."
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"Hollywood wants press, any kind of press."
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"We do a lot of light classical programming with that, too... obviously... a lot of Tchaikovsky music, Grieg, things like that which have become less classical with classical concerts."
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"Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course."
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"I worked with practically everybody in the business in all of the years in NBC, but I worked personally many years with people like Crosby and Sinatra, so of course that was a great ground school for me."
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"I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios."
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"I grew up on film scores and scores from films."
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"Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market."
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"If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long."
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"While there used to be one or two Pops orchestras, now there are all kinds of European orchestras that suddenly look upon this as a golden wand that can enable them to make money recording this music."
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"Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music."
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"I had had a classical education prior to that."
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