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Life is too short to try and glue together broken plates that were cheap in the first place. ↗

[Over breakfast] We discussed the 'novelisation' question. This is where the studio pay someone to novelise my script and sell it as Sense and Sensibility. I've said if this happens I will hang myself. Revolting notion. Beyond revolting. Lindsay [Doran] said that the executive she had discussed it with had said 'as a human being I agree with you -- but ...' I laughed until my porridge was cool enough to swallow. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#marketing #movies #novelization #screenplays #unintentional-humor

Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #effects #literature #literature-quotes #meaning

Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs. ↗

— Joe Baca

#cheap #china #coffin #driving #every

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#counterfeit #dearly #enough #happiness #how

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#choose #down #exact #full #genius

I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist. ↗

— Tammy Faye Bakker

#cheaper #i #i always #psychiatrist #say

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#cheap #film #hardly #i #just

Just because you eat doesn't mean you eat smart. It's hard to beat a $1.99 wing pack of three at a fast-food restaurant - it's so cheap - but that wing pack isn't feeding anyone, it's just pushing hunger back an hour. ↗

— Mario Batali

#back #beat #because #cheap #eat

When I look back at it, I'm mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and I thought the scripts were great, but it just looks so cheap. ↗

— Peter Berg

#back #cheap #david #great #great writer