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Quotes by Screenwriter
"Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here."
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"When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years."
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"Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet."
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"The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want."
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"Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?"
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"The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror."
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"Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions."
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"Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom."
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"Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead."
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"You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors."
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"I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can."
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"That's right, fall in one pit and start over from the beginning! Well, thankfully my buddies practically tied me to my chair until I put in extra lives and I'm glad they did."
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"We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer sufficient to bring the dead back to life. We must create from the beginning, we must build up our own creature, build it up from nothing."
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"Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating."
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"The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour."
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"A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors."
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"Oh, I realize it's a penny here and a penny there, but look at me: I've worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty."
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"Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive."
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"I'll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork."
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"What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing."
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"There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him."
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"A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face."
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"There are no strangers on Christmas Eve."
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"After all, the wool of a black sheep is just as warm."
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"Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair."
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"A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place."
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"As soon as the harvest is in, you're a migrant worker. Afterwards just a bum."
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"There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study."
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"Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive."
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"Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion."
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"I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough."
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"The history of medicine is the history of the unusual."
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"I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot."
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"If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?"
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"Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit."
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"Forgive your enemies, but first get even."
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"One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life."
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"First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck."
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"One week before Pitfall! was to be released, I only gave you one life to play the whole game. I was experimenting with that concept as sort of the ultimate challenge."
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"Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness."
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"Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man."
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"We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right."
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"My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned."
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"Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn."
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