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Ideas come from everything

Alfred Hitchcock

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Alfred Hitchcock
Age: 80 †
Born: 1899
Born: August 13
Died: 1980
Died: April 29
Cinematographer
Director
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Television Director
Television Producer
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
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I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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