Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

Quote by Alistair Cooke

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People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like...

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like...

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him...

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him...

Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by...

Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by...

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like...

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like...

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World...

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World...

To the goggling unbeliever Texans say - as people always say about their mangier dishes...

To the goggling unbeliever Texans say - as people always say about their mangier dishes...

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of...

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of...

These humiliations are the essence of the game.

These humiliations are the essence of the game.

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones...

It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones...

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity...

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity...

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace...

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace...

A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he...

A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he...

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by...

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by...

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of...

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of...

Experience has proved that the real danger to America and to liberty lies in the...

Experience has proved that the real danger to America and to liberty lies in the...

You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen...

You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen...

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action

I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right...

I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right...

A lady came up to me on the street and pointed at my suede jacket....

A lady came up to me on the street and pointed at my suede jacket....