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If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come. – Raymond Chandler

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They dont want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they cant use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them. – Raymond Chandler

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Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars. – Fred A. Allen

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