Biting Quote by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

“I'm not biting my fingernails. I'm biting my knuckles. I finished the fingernails months ago.”

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Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

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All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

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[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

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So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me.

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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,…

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Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.

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There's nothing as real as money.

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There is no such thing as realistic dialogue. If you [simply recorded] the real conversation of any people and played it back from the…

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

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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…

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I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.

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I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

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The present is the past biting into the future.

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Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of history, at the continuing impact of colonization, and at the biting knowledge that living as an exile in one's own land necessitates. . . . Certainly the time frame we presently inhabit has much that is…

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I assume the same problem exists in Australia as in America of back-biting and jealousy and parochialism among disciplines - there are the scientists,…

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Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It's like biting into your grandmother.

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There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: ferocity on a scale only gods can summon. It hurls itself at the island, sending spray right over the top of the lighthouse, biting pieces off the cliff. And the sound is a roaring of a…

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There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater…

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