If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.
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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
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The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
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Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.
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