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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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Mount Shasta
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Corinne Anita Loos
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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 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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In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as wellas her own.
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I was making love to a man, a man I hardly even know. He was kissing the face off me and I was kissing the face off him. And I found it highly satisfactory.
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Gentlemen prefer blondes.
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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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Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen.
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I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character' possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.
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There's nothing colder than chemistry.
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A bit of conversational sex makes a pleasant climate for creative effort.
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That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.
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It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.
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If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.
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So we came to the Ritz hotel and the Ritz Hotel was divine. Because when a girl can sit in a delightful bar and have delicious champagne cocktails and look at all the important French people in Paris, I think it is divine.
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Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.
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Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd.
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Memory is more indelible than ink.
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Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.
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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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And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?
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