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Sunset Boulevard Flashcards

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I am big. It’s the pictures that got small

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I am big. It’s the pictures that got small - Norma

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Shhhhh… you’ll wake up the monkey

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Shhhhh… you’ll wake up the monkey - Joe

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Well as long as the lady’s paying for it, why not take the vicunha?

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Well as long as the lady’s paying for it, why not take the vicunha? - Suit seller

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What you’re trying to say is that you don’t want me to love you

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What you’re trying to say is that you don’t want me to love you - Norma

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Madame got the razor from your room and she cut her wrists

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Madame got the razor from your room and she cut her wrists - Max

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Great stars have great pride

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Great stars have great pride - Norma

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I don’t want to be a reader all my life. I want to write

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I don’t want to be a reader all my life. I want to write - Betty

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Nobody important really. Just a movie writer with a couple of B grade pictures to his credit

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Nobody important really. Just a movie writer with a couple of B pictures to his credit - Joe

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The poor dope. He always wanted a pool. Well, in the end he got himself a pool. Only the price turned out to be a little high

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The poor dope. He always wanted a pool. Well, in the end he got himself a pool. Only the price turned out to be a little high - Joe

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Life, which can be strangely merciful… had taken pity on Norma Desmond

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Life, which can be strangely merciful… had taken pity on Norma Desmond - Joe

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The dream she had clung to so desperately… had enfolded her

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The dream she had clung to so desperately… had enfolded her - Joe

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All right Mr DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up

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All right Mr DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up - Norma

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She was still sleepwalking along the giddy heights of a lost career, plain crazy when it came to that one subject… her celluloid self

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She was still sleepwalking along the giddy heights of a lost career, plain crazy when it came to that one subject… her celluloid self - Joe

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Tell him without me he wouldn’t have any job because without me, there wouldn’t be any Paramount Studio

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Tell him without me he wouldn’t have any job because without me, there wouldn’t be any Paramount Studio - Norma

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I discovered her when she was 16… I made her a star… I directed all her early films

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I discovered her when she was 16… I made her a star… I directed all her early films - Max

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Well, they didn’t like my nose… slanted this way a little, so I went to a doctor and had it fixed

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Well, they didn’t like my nose… slanted this way a little, so I went to a doctor and had it fixed - Betty

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There’s nothing tragic about being 50, not unless you’re trying to be 25

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There’s nothing tragic about being 50, not unless you’re trying to be 25 - Joe

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The plain fact was that she was afraid of the world outside. Afraid it would remind her that time had passed

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The plain fact was that she was afraid of the world outside. Afraid it would remind her that time had passed - Joe

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A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit

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A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit - Joe

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The perfect setting for a silent movie queen. Poor devil. Still waving proudly to a parade which had long since passed her by

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The perfect setting for a silent movie queen. Poor devil. Still waving proudly to a parade which had long since passed her by - Joe

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You see, this is my life. It always will be. There’s nothing else… just us… and the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr DeMille. I’m ready for my close-up

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You see, this is my life. It always will be. There’s nothing else… just us… and the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr DeMille. I’m ready for my close-up - Norma

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You’ll read about it in the late additions, because it involves an old-time star

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You’ll read about it in the late additions, because it involves an old-time star - Joe

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Before you hear it all distorted and blown out of proportion

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Before you hear it all distorted and blown out of proportion - Joe

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Rudy never asked any questions about your finances. He’d just look at your heels and know the score

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Rudy never asked any questions about your finances. He’d just look at your heels and know the score - Joe

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Apparently, I just didn’t have what it takes, the time had come to wrap up the Hollywood dream and go home

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Apparently, I just didn’t have what it takes, the time had come to wrap up the Hollywood dream and go home - Joe

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Waiting for the gravy train

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Waiting for the gravy train - Joe

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Why don’t you go out and take a crack at Hollywood? Maybe you could think that you could make it

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Why don’t you go out and take a crack at Hollywood? Maybe you could think that you could make it - Joe

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Of course I could just give you $300, but I won’t

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Of course I could just give you $300, but I won’t - Agent

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It was a great big white elephant of a place. The kind crazy people built in the crazy 20s

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It was a great big white elephant of a place. The kind crazy people built in the crazy 20s - Joe

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A neglected house gets an unhappy look

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A neglected house gets an unhappy look - Joe

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Why have you kept me waiting for so long

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Why have you kept me waiting for so long - Norma

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They opened their big mouths and all that came out was talk, talk, talk

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They opened their big mouths and all that came out was talk, talk, talk - Norma

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Sometimes its interesting to see how bad, bad writing can be

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Sometimes its interesting to see how bad, bad writing can be - Joe

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Grim, sunset castle

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Grim, sunset castle - Joe

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Wind wheezing through that organ once in a while

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Wind wheezing through that organ once in a while - Joe

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Cosy setup

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Cosy setup - Joe

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Silly hodgepodge of melodramatic plots

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Silly hodgepodge of melodramatic plots - Joe

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I started concocting a little plot of my own

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I started concocting a plot of my own - Joe

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She was the greatest of them all, you wouldn’t know, you were too young

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She was the greatest of them all, you wouldn’t know, you were too young - Max

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She’s quite the character

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She’s quite the character - Joe talking about Norma to Max

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In one week, she received seventeen thousand fan letters

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In one week, she received seventeen thousand fan letters - Max

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I pegged him as slightly cuckoo too

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I pegged him as slightly cuckoo too - Joe talking about Max

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The whole place seemed to be kind of stricken with a creeping paralysis

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The whole place seemed to be kind of stricken with a creeping paralysis - Joe talking about Norma’s house

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Out of beat with the rest of the world

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Out of beat with the rest of the world - Joe talking about Norma’s house

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Ten thousands midnights ago

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Ten thousands midnights ago - Joe talking about Norma’s pool

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As if she were laying to rest an only child

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As if she were laying to rest an only child - Joe talking about Norma laying to rest her chimp

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Was her life really as empty as that

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Was her life really as empty as that - Joe talking about Norma and symbolising to the empty pool

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They don’t want you in every scene

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They don’t want you in every scene - Joe talking to Norma about the Salome script

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They want to see me, me! Norma Desmond

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They want to see me, me! Norma Desmond - Norma talking about her fans

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Oh, wake up, Norma, you’d be killing yourself to an empty house. The audience left twenty years ago. Now, face it

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Oh, wake up, Norma, you’d be killing yourself to an empty house. The audience left twenty years ago. Now, face it - Joe

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