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"I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach."
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"Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."
Work
"Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film."
Life
"There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating."
Nothing
"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'"
Motivational
"Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare."
Pleasure
"Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table."
Journalism
"Self-plagiarism is style."
Self
"The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."
Poor
"If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on."
Creativity
"I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks."
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"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."
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"The body is not a reliable friend."
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"All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all."
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"Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body."
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"I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?"
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"I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body."
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"The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body."
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"The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms."
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"Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much."
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"I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate."
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