"In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel."

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Source : "Colombo's Hollywood: wit and wisdom of the moviemakers". Book by John Robert Colombo, p. 150, 1979.

Ben Hecht

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“Can I - do I have to be obsessed with it and proceed from that? Not always. But when I'm on top of my game, I definitely think about the way that the world sees me and the way that the world thinks about painting. You must.”
“Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they could. Part of that spiritual process was and is to give away wealth, to discard wealth in order not to gain.”
“There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.”
“I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.”
“I think my parents - my parents were very hands-off, quite liberal in terms of their - they really - they did encourage me, but they never really pushed me into anything, really.”
“There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation.”
“Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.”
“I guess I thought the strength of my wanting would be enough to make him appear.”

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