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And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#around #cabinet #consensus #dynamics #executives

Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#chance #channels #cut #every #every time

Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#like #other #our #rock #roll

From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#addicted #been #better #big #determine

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#because #been #checking #could #deported

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#excess #fire #like #only #passions

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. ↗

— Jackie Gleason

#always #day #easier #first #off

The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page. ↗

— Pippa Evans

#anything #become #knowing #never #page

I won't miss coaching. What you miss is that camaraderie with those boys and the other coaches. You miss that. ↗

— Bobby Bowden

#coaches #coaching #i #miss #other

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#come #healing #nothing #realization #right