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I don't think the written word is important in movies anymore and the really great movies are done by great directors who in many cases write their own scripts. I think it's gotten to be more of a visual thing than an audible thing.
Anita Loos
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Anita Loos
Age: 92 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1981
Died: August 18
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Corinne Anita Loos
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A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.
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...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.
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There's nothing colder than chemistry.
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I've always loved high style in low company.
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If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.
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On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.
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Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.
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A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
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There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.
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In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.
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I was born in the theatre. My father was a small time impresario on the West Coast and I was acting from the age of 7, but I started to write when I was 12 and by the time I was 14 I was making more money than I was acting.
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I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.
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I used to think that looking across a pillow into the fabulous face of Buster Keaton would be a more thrilling destiny than any screen career.
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