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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
California
Corinne Anita Loos
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Gentlemen always seem to remember blondes.
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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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If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.
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I've always loved high style in low company.
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Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes.
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Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
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A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.
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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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I began quite early in life to sense the thrill a girl attains in supplying money to a man.
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One might feel that, at my age, I should look on life with more gravity. After all, I've been privileged to listen, firsthand, tosome of the most profound thinkers of my daywho were all beset by gloom over the condition the world had gotten into. Then why can't I view it with anything but amusement?
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There's nothing colder than chemistry.
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Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of mental crack-up. Yes, if we were childish in the past, I wish we could be children once again.
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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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A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
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It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.
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Any girl who was a lady would not even think of having such a good time that she did not remember to hang on to her jewelry.
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A bit of conversational sex makes a pleasant climate for creative effort.
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Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!
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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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