"The worst disgrace that can befall a producer is an unkind notice from a New York reviewer. When this happens, the producer becomes a pariah in Hollywood. He is shunned by his friends, thrown into bankruptcy, and like a Japanese electing hara-kiri, he commits suttee."

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Source : "Strictly from Hunger". "The Most of S. J. Perelman", p. 47, 1992.

S. J. Perelman

#New York Quotes #Hollywood Quotes #Pariahs Quotes

“The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.”
“The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.”
“It's very tough to get yourself around the idea that there could be a mechanism being used or abused to restrict and alter the society in which we live.”
“Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.”
“Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there was an equal hush. Between the real landscape and its shadow in the water, there was no division; both were so untroubled and clear, and, while so fraught with solemn mystery of life and death, so hopefully reassuring to the gazer's soothed heart, because so tenderly and mercifully beautiful.”
“Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to believe.”

Source : Fanny Fern (2015). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.110, Sheba Blake Publishing
“You can actually improvise a lot as a voice actor. It's not that entirely different than shooting a live action movie; the characters mouths are quite easy to manipulate once all the information is built into the computer. So you can improvise a lot and it doesn't matter really how far along they are in the process they can really just make the character say something different.”
“My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of being as intriguing and interesting as he was.”

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