Life Quote by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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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…

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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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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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“Remind me to tell you about the time I looked into the heart of an artichoke.”

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Life is full of change. That's how we learn and grow.

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Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God.

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I value the experiences that come with life too much to sit by and not put my full effort into them.

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Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.

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“There's more to life than you can see. Your sight is limited.”

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“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.”

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When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take…

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The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist…

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The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson.

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“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care…

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