Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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The writer is a definite human phenomenon. He is almost a type - as pugilists are a type. He may be a bad writer - an insipid one or a clumsy one - but there is a bug in him that keeps spinning yarns; and that bulges his brow a bit, narrows his jaws, weakens his eyes and gives him girl children instead of boys. Nobody but a writer can write. People who hang around writers for years - as producers did - who are much smarter and have much better taste, never learn to write.

Ben Hecht's Popular Quotes

Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you're in over your head.

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In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. Th…

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There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.

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For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

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A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling “Thief.” If he is wise he has not been impoverished. Nor has the fool been en…

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Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the wor…

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The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.

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Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was alw…

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There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.

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