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Quote by Alfred Hitchcock
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in o

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. – Alfred Hitchcock

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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didnt change peoples habits. It just kept them inside the house. – Alfred Hitchcock

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Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. Im fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldnt make a good suspense film. – Alfred Hitchcock

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