"There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own."

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Source : Dalton Trumbo, E. L. Doctorow (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.104, Kensington Publishing Corp.

Dalton Trumbo

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“I think that glamour is about confidence and really owning the look”

Source : "Q&A: Monique Lhuillier on glamour and gowns". Interview with Jeanne Beker, June 15, 2012.
“As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse... I'm fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I'll be in decline myself. It's a fact of life.”
“My dental hygienist is cute. Every time I visit, I eat a whole package of Oreo cookies while waiting in the lobby. Sometimes she has to cancel the rest of the afternoon's appointments.”
“My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.”
“As a young filmmaker, I shot a lot of stuff because I wanted to make sure that I got everything, but now I've gotten much more precise with my shooting. Editing is a whole other layer because then, sometimes you realize characters don't even need to say this or that. It becomes an issue of exposition, and over-explaining something. In the script, I'd reinforce certain things about what I wanted people to know two or three times, but in the editing room, I'd be like, "I only need to say this once, maybe twice."”
“I can't point to a moment or incident that made me see that this business, this putting down words on paper, was what I would do for the rest of my lucid life. But apparently, that is my calling.”
“She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.”
“Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles have only been confirmed, and along with them our conviction that mankind can hope for a solution to its problems, among which the most urgent are those of peace and unity, only by turning its attention and energies to the discovery of the child and to the development of the great potentialities of the human personality in the course of its formation.”

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