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Alfred Hitchcock Quotes

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

Alfred Hitchcock

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: english
Birth: August 13, 1899 - April 29, 1980

Topics

Best Tears Actor Him Up Just

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.

Man Support Statistics Lamp Rather

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

Robert Smithson

Words Mental Things Processes

Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.

Change Failure Never Might Fatal

My mother took me to the British Museum aged five. I had thought people from the past weren't as good as we were, and then I saw the Elgin marbles. Suddenly, the world seemed more complicated.

Good Mother Past People Me World

I really don't like that modern notion of 'I don't need anyone.' I see a lot of young women feeling they have to be that way, they have to be hard, in a way. And what does that bring them? They're just going to be lonesome. They're going to be, at best, lonesome and capable, at worst, lonesome and hard. And is that what we want? No.

Women Best Feeling Young Want Way

I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves.

Family Behavior Values True Been

Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we didn't have any noteworthy problem with it. The problem that we have is not that there are now more elephants.

Problem Now More Lived Elephants

It makes sense for Japan to pursue a more independent role in the world, following Latin America and others in freeing itself from U.S. domination.

World America Independent Others

True virtue would never liken its rewards to points on a loyalty card, not because it is its own reward, but because it is not something we should practice to accrue future benefits.

Future Loyalty Practice Reward True

I like female directors that gravitate toward masculine things. I think the danger of a male director is the over-fetishization of the masculinity.

Think Masculinity Director Things

If I'm diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.

Family Connections Someone Circle

I don't know if I'll ever get married. I have no plans to not get married.

Know Plans Get Married Get Married

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