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"It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing."

"There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence."

"Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it."

"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself."

"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."

"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen."

"Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open."
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"For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way."

"So, Hitchcock wouldn't say anything about my work in the movie but, on the other hand, he wouldn't complain, either."

"My first day at MGM they decided to bring this lion out, male, and it was not the best time for him to see me. All of a sudden he thought I was in heat and this lion went into the dressing room, which was just a trailer on the sound stage, and went crazy."

"The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues that didn't really add up the way you think they would, and sometimes, not at all."

"Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life."

"I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people."

"I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we worked. He never covered his soul and I never covered mine. We saw into each other's souls, very definitely."

"As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person."
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