“When people say "What do you want people to get from this movie?" I say, "Well, it depends on what they bring to it." I don't try to decide what people should get from it or why. I don't do a part for those kinds of reasons.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 154 of 303
“There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man's reasoning powers.”
“I wanted a good relationship with my mother, and I realized I had a choice: Either I could spend all my time angry that she didn't give me the hugs I thought I needed, or I could understand that she hugs differently. It's not a spread-open-the-arms, 'come here' hug. She hugs by sheltering me from her worries.”
“Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.”
“I always make special notes about evidence that contridicts me: supportive evidence I can remember without trying.”
“I always feel as if my books came half out of Lyell's brain... & therefore that when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one yet saw it partially through his eyes.”
“Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.”
“Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence and vagabondism; for in ancient days those two amusements, combining a wholesome excitement with a promising means of repairing shattered fortunes, were at once the ennobling pursuit and the healthful recreation of the Quality of this land.”
“The more especially, as in my juvenile frankness, I took some credit to myself for being so confidential and felt that I was quite the patron of my two respectful entertainers.”
“I recognize that virtually every company that comes in here has a perspective. It's often not difficult to understand why they have the perspective that they have.”
“In this book I do not intend to give a blow-by-blow description of a sex bout: I find them inartistic, clinical and unpoetic. The circumstances that lead up to sex I find more interesting.”
“People should not pass judgment until they have seen the film.”
“A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.”
“Be willing to learn, because none of us know the truth”
“Before you trade sandwiches, check between the bread.”
“To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.”
“Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.”
“Someday you'll remember what I said and you'll thank me for it." Francie wished adults would stop telling her that. Already the load of thanks in the future was weighing her down. She figured she'd have to spend the best years of her womanhood hunting up people to tell them that they were right and to thank them.”
“I don't generally read a lot of fiction.”
“Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.”