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Self-plagiarism is style.

— Alfred Hitchcock

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  2. Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
  3. Your best side? My dear, you're sitting on it.
  4. [This award is] meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
  5. Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in vi…
  6. I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
  7. Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
  8. In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is the god; he must create life.

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  • authorship
  • originality
  • style

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