David O. Selznick Quotes

#1. Thank God for your mother.

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#2. She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.

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#3. It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside.

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#4. Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion.

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#5. Why do you knock yourself out? Take it easy.

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#6. If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.

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#7. The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.

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#8. I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.

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#9. They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.

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#10. At this rate, I'll live forever.

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#11. If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble.

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#12. It's all right; it's not so much fun any more.

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#13. Even this vein of writing is so foreign to me that I am amazed.

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#14. There are only two kinds of class: First class and no class.

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#15. There are only two classes - first class and no class.

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#16. I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.

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#17. If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.

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#18. You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time.

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#19. Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands.

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#20. I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before.

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#21. I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.

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#22. This dame keeps dragging me into the bushes. Keep your eye open, you may have to rescue me.

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#23. I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.

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#24. The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.

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