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"The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff."
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"Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism."
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"The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening."
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"As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around."
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"In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel."
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"I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest."
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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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"Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting."
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"In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings."
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"If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy."
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"An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer."
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"Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters."
Bible
"My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding."
Wedding
"Biblical names are hot again."
Name
"Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent."
History
"The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart."
Family
"I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets."
Publishing
"I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying."
Fiction
"My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life."
Life
"Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office."
Men
"November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays."
Books
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