Even when dead, the hog largely refuses to submit to the machine.
Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.
Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.
Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd.
I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.
In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.
When I was very young and first worked in Hollywood, the films had bred in me one sole ambition: to get away from them; to live inthe great world outside movies; to meet people who created their own situations through living them; who ad-libbed their own dialogue; whose jokes were not the contrivance of some gag writer.
What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.
By not foretelling the ending to yourself, as a writer, you're able to open up the canvas and say, "I'm going to go here. I'm going to go there. " It's just a little bit more freeing than a stand-alone procedural, where you work backwards from the end.
My mother is one of those very unusual, superb human beings-she's innately strong and incredibly smart. She created an environment for me to explore who I was.
Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.