"All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely."

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Source : Edmund Wilson (1977). “Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912-1972”

Edmund Wilson

#Hollywood Quotes

“I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.”
“names are a way to keep people in your mind”
“Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.”
“I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.”

Source : Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.63, Random House
“You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.”
“In fact, five years ago, after Saddam ejected the UN inspectors, John McCain and I gave up on containment and introduced the Iraqi Liberation Act, which, when it became law, made a change of regime in Baghdad official US policy. You might therefore say that, when it comes to Iraq, President Bush is just enforcing the McCain-Lieberman policy.”
“When my parents went off to Knoxville to work, I lived with my father's mother. She was strict - the kind who starched and ironed dresses. I had to sit more than I played. Oh, I was miserable. I liked being out with the animals. I'd come in the house with my hair pulled out, sash off the dress, dirty as heck. I was always getting spanked.”

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