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If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
Abraham Polonsky
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Abraham Polonsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1910
Born: December 5
Died: 1999
Died: October 26
Film Director
Lawyer
Novelist
Screenwriter
New York City
New York
Abraham Lincoln Polonsky
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I don't take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
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Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
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Today in Germany, everyone is being watched--even the watchers.
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I'll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!
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What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
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Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people...And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.
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This is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars--an excitingday in a man's life. The enterprise was slightly illegal.
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What do you mean gangsters? It's business.
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