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Quotes by Screenwriter
"You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love."
5
"Whoever eats anything at a wedding luncheon? They make the food out of papier mache. My salad had been used four or five times this week."
5
"She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer."
5
"The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs."
5
"I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like."
5
"Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man."
5
"You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow."
5
"I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas."
5
"If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them."
5
"As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses."
5
"I've got to go. That's one of the penalties of being a doctor. I never seem to finish a conversation."
5
"The history of medicine is the history of the unusual."
5
"We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right."
4
"Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects."
4
"There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study."
4
"The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons."
4
"Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts."
4
"I told you, the dopes are gonna inherit the earth anyway."
4
"I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough."
4
"There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him."
4
"It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time."
4
"Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit."
4
"I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster."
4
"An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy."
3
"I'm going to be a great film star. That is, if booze and sex don't get me first."
3
"Shame, shame, shame. How many times have I told you not to be frightened? Have I not told you God looks after all his children?"
3
"It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else."
3
"You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here."
3
"Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse."
3
"I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot."
3
"It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins."
3
"Once in his lifetime every artist feels the hand of God and creates something that comes alive."
3
"If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?"
3
"We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company."
3
"So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives."
3
"I stick my neck out for nobody. I'm the only cause I'm interested in."
2
"I've always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night."
2
"My dear, since Eve picked the apple no woman's ever been taken entirely unawares. When a woman's kissed it's because, deep down, she wants to be kissed."
2
"Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt."
2
"Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness."
2
"The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren't sending us a picture of their screens most of those writers would have spent their time playing the game rather than writing letters."
2
"A doctor is fascinated by death, and pain. And how much pain a man can endure."
2
"When a girl's under 21, she's protected by law. When she's over 65, she's protected by nature. Anywhere in between she's fair game."
1
"I was a little hesitant at taking the job at Atari. I had never programmed for a living and I worried it might get boring (building circuits seemed more fun). But I would probably still be in the video game business."
1
"I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that."
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