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"I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater."
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"I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work."
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"I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it."
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"I learn new things all the time."
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"In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine."
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"That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort."
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"I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy."
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"Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man."
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"But surrealism is present in most of my pictures."
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"If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds."
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