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"Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself."
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"We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails."

"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."

"Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about."

"I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it."

"You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public."

"I don't like to cry in public, unless I'm getting paid for it."

"When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves."

"There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet."
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"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity."

"The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee."

"Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs."

"You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive."
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