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It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s. ↗

— Robert Towne

#areas #because #built #california #cape

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#even #good #good book #life #life story

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian. ↗

— Robert Towne

#attracted #been #being #culture #ethnic

You're torn between wanting to fill in all the spaces and knowing that's really going to screw up the screenplay. And yet, how are you going to communicate it to people who really don't understand the process? ↗

— Robert Towne

#communicate #fill #going #how #knowing

A life which does not go into action is a failure. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#does #failure #go #into #life

Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right. ↗

— Stuart Townsend

#get #great #life #right #spend

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it. ↗

— Sue Townsend

#every time #i #long #new #piece

I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#audience #changed #early #enjoyed #i

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#hearing #helped #i #invent #makes

Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#cheap #get #his #i #idea