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“Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.”
Source : Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.50
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“There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.”
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“Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides.”
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“I always thought that there was a really good chance that I wasn't going to get married.”
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“I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me”
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“I got a job at Metro and went in to see Louis Mayer, who told me he wanted me to be a producer. I said I wanted to write and direct. He said, No, you have to produce first, you have to crawl before you can walk. Which is as good a definition of producing as I ever heard.”
Source : "Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies". Book by Leslie Halliwell, Harper Collins, p. 312, 2003.
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“A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.”
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“And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.”
