Herman J. Mankiewicz quotes
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“There are millions to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots. Don't let thisget around.”
-- Herman J. MankiewiczSource : Cable toBenHecht in the earlydays ofHollywood.Quotedin the NewYork Times, 8 Jan1993.
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“Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night!”
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“We are a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk.We are the original displaced personalities, concentrated gatherings of neurotics, egomaniacs, emotional misfits and precocious children.”
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“In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, getting rich, and whipping servants. But you have to shoot him in the end.”
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“You know it's hard to hear what a bearded man is saying. He can't speak above a whisker.”
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“Imagine--the whole world wired to Harry Cohn's ass!”
-- Herman J. Mankiewicz
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Source : "17-Year-Old Gold Medalist Vows To Dominate The Figure Skating World" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. February 21, 2014.
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“During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk”
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