Quotes by Sidney Buchman - Page 1

I told you, the dopes are gonna inherit the earth anyway.
Sidney Buchman / Screenwriter
Dope
Earth
Anyway
Inherit
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It is repugnant to an American to inform upon his fellow citizens.
Sidney Buchman / Screenwriter
Fellow
Fellow Citizens
Inform
Repugnant
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If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?
Sidney Buchman / Screenwriter
Dull
Left
Mystery
Explore
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I consider the philosophy of the Communist Party as not applicable to our American way of life.
Sidney Buchman / Screenwriter
Communist
Communist Party
Life Way American
American Way
Applicable
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Capra always wanted a screenwriter with him, even on the soundstage. The writer had to be there at his side.
Sidney Buchman / Screenwriter
Screenwriter
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Hollywood as a whole has recently been made aware of the Negro's true position in America and our responsibility toward the subject.
Sidney Buchman / Screenwriter
Recently
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Anyone who assumes that this country is standing still is not a good American, or rather, he is an apathetic and dead one and makes no contribution to the society.
Sidney Buchman / Screenwriter
Apathetic
Contribution
Assumes
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In the morning, Capra would arrive with twenty-or-so pages in which he'd written down all of his ideas. Most were terrible, then all of a sudden there would be one which was astounding.
Sidney Buchman / Screenwriter
Pages
Arrive
Astounding
Sudden
Written Down
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Capra's great passion was Dickens. As soon as he had some money, he bought some of the rarest and most extraordinary editions of Dickens's work, and he was very proud of his collection.
Sidney Buchman / Screenwriter
Dickens
Extraordinary
Work Money Great
Rarest
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I am a man who has made a great deal of money, and I haven't got a great deal. This is because I give it no value, and a certain Christian precept is something to be lived by, and so forth.
Sidney Buchman / Screenwriter
Forth
Great Deal
Precept
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Boys forget what their country means by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. Then they get to be men, they forgeteven more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.
Sidney Buchman / Screenwriter
Book
Country
Reading
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I have always been opposed to illegal changes of our Government or the overthrow of its institutions, whether by force or other illegal means. I have always believed in the democratic processes.
Sidney Buchman / Screenwriter
Illegal
Overthrow
Processes
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Riskin went into directing and made a film with Cary Grant which applied to the letter all the ideas which had made his comedies famous. It had everything except that little something - and the film was a failure.
Sidney Buchman / Screenwriter
Applied
Comedies
Directing
Grant
Letter
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I have seen the face of this country change in 25 years or 30 years. I have seen a equalization begin to develop - in inheritance laws, tax laws, laws for favoring trade unions, protecting them, and so forth. All these are social changes.
Sidney Buchman / Screenwriter
Inheritance
Trade Unions
Forth
Protecting
Social Changes
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If the condition of Government stands still, it just makes no sense and must die, so, therefore, the improvement within that democracy must be the greater and greater equalization of rights and opportunities to the people as those people grow up.
Sidney Buchman / Screenwriter
Improvement
Condition
No Sense
Stands
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Communism seemed to be an ideal experiment in trying to achieve a state where all persons have greater democracy. I might add, like other persons here and elsewhere, I found myself concerned with the problem of increasing need for greater economic and political democracy for greater numbers of people.
Sidney Buchman / Screenwriter
Achieve
Add
Communism
Concerned
Democracy
Elsewhere
Greater
Numbers
Persons
Myself Political People
Experiment
Ideal
Increasing
Seemed
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We in America were worried about many problems dealing with economic inequality and political inequality. The Communist Party seemed to be the only political force, both concerned and willing, to take action to stop the threat of fascism abroad and to work for economic and political reform in this country.
Sidney Buchman / Screenwriter
Communist
Communist Party
Fascism
Inequality
Reform
Threat
Worried
Abroad
Dealing
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To begin to know the philosophy of socialism, in backward countries where the class differences are great, very great, and terribly exaggerated over the conditions we know in this country, to overcome this, the theory of revolution, of force and violence, was necessary within those political conditions. It couldn't be anything else.
Sidney Buchman / Screenwriter
Conditions
Differences
Exaggerated
Revolution
Socialism
Overcome
Great Political Country
Backward
Terribly
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