I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.
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It's only words... unless they're true.David Mamet
We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.
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Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
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We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife.
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