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Never turn your back on a friend.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Alfred Hitchcock
Age: 80 †
Born: 1899
Born: August 13
Died: 1980
Died: April 29
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Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Ideas come from everything
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
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That is the most frightening sight I have ever seen.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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I'm not much into rear window ethics.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, 'I say, is that thing safe?
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Our original title, you know, was `The Man in Lincoln`s Nose`. Couldn`t use it, though. They also wouldn`t let us shoot people on Mount Rushmore. Can`t deface a national monument. And it`s a pity, too, because I had a wonde.
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Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.
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