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An angel has no memory.
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Angel
Memories
No Memory
Memory
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I like to work at night.
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I met Claxton on the set of The Cincinnati Kid.
Terry Southern / Author
Kids
Mets
Cincinnati
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It's frustrating not to have more control over your material.
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Frustrating
Material
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I'm not interested in attacking, I'm interested in astonishing.
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Astonishing
Attacking
Not Interested
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The Loved One has been the most underrated film I've worked on.
Terry Southern / Author
Film
Loved Ones
Underrated
Loved One
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Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best.
Terry Southern / Author
Contracts
Studios
Writing
Contract
Studio
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I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.
Terry Southern / Author
Alienation
Despair
Degree
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It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.
Terry Southern / Author
Good Experiences
Jane
Roger
Fonda
Jane Fonda
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After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.
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Adaptation
Collectors
Collector
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There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat
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Men
Earth
Throat
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In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.
Terry Southern / Author
Difficulty
Film
Lack Of Control
Superior
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You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.
Terry Southern / Author
Girl
Boys
Dramatic
End Of The World
World
World Way End
Meets
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For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.
Terry Southern / Author
Credit
Directors
Unheard
Writing
Named
Director
Credits
Practically
Producer
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In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book.
Terry Southern / Author
Book
Cases
Loved Ones
Version
Loved One
Updated
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I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own.
Terry Southern / Author
Care
Taste
Writing
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When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.
Terry Southern / Author
Christian
Damage
Damage Control
Magic
Finally
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Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.
Terry Southern / Author
Affinity
Beard
Long
People
Peter
Time Long People
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When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.
Terry Southern / Author
Black
Black Comedy
Decided
Flavor
Giving
Route
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Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.
Terry Southern / Author
Arms
Country
Gdp
Nations
Selling
Third World
Western
World
Dealt
Exploiting
Third
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Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party.
Terry Southern / Author
Party
Rivers
Tied
Together
River
Several
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I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.
Terry Southern / Author
Albums
Mets
Stones
Album
Cooper
Covers
Michael
Met
Same Time
Several
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The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.
Terry Southern / Author
Capacity
Important
Shock
Worn Out
Writing
Astonish
Important Thing
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David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.
Terry Southern / Author
Anthology
Edited
Series
Son
Stories
Best Work Me
David
Burnett
Martha
Short Stories
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It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything.
Terry Southern / Author
Credit
Directors
Film
Including
Stanley
Prefer
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Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.
Terry Southern / Author
Believe
Firsts
Green
Intriguing
United States
Partisan
Piece
Review
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I don't know why, but I always feel a kind of necessity to write things that are beyond acceptance, that are too offensive or something. For people to read them and say, Ha-ha-ha, very funny. No, we can't print that.
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Acceptance
People
Writing
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An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy.
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Abuse
Hero
Hypocrisy
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