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Joseph L. Mankiewicz

"Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted."

Source : Gary Carey, Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1972). “More about All about Eve”

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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“Your painting is a measure of your mind.”
“When you think of the Exorcist, you think of Linda Blair and pea soup and all this madness, but really if you look at the first half of that film, the stuff between her and Ellen Burstyn is so naturalistic and so real.”
“In L.A., I called every scrap yard and surplus place that was listed, about 50 or 60 places, and only at one of them did the owner get intrigued and let me go around the yard to find stuff. Because the insurance regulations are such that you can't go into the places anymore.”
“I think it's dangerous to have lots of time on your hands as a writer. Time to pursue every little alleyway, to follow every single whim. I feel I've done my best writing when I'm stretched for time, when you're most pressured.”
“It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.”
“The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.”

Source : Eugene Paul Wigner (2012). “Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses”, p.549, Springer Science & Business Media
“In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to be honored in a similar way.”
“Yeah I'm chillin' on a dirt road, laid back swervin' like I'm George Jones.”

Source : Song: Dirt Road Anthem, Album: My Kinda Party, 2010

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