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Look at what people are trying to conceal, and you’ll see that they’re revealing everything.
William Monahan
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William Monahan
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 3
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I never work until I have a deadline. You have to fit so much in a given day that you just don't get serious until you know when the deadline is.
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I learned my job from English dramatists. Tennessee Williams was no good for me, New York stuff was no good to me.
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T.S. Eliot, who learned to swim at the same beach as I did, just threw in the towel and moved to Cheyne Walk. I'm not going to do that but I'm not scared of the open channel between me and Britain.
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I've always been a bit repelled by Sunset Boulevard, which is wrong about almost everything it touches, whether it's fame, Hollywood, screenwriters, or old ladies. Sunset Boulevard would only make sense to me if it was about John Gilbert and the pool boy.
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