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sunset boulevard quotes exam Flashcards

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“Poor dope”

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he always wanted a pool. well he got one , the price was just a little too high”

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“I’m big

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its the pictures that got small”

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“Me, me

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they want to see me, Norma Desmond

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4
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“She was still

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sleepwalking along the giddy heights of her lost career”

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“The plain fact was that

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she was afraid of that world outside, afraid that it would remind her that time had passed”

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“Poor devil

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still waving proudly to a parade which had long since passed her by”

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“I felt caught

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like the cigarette in that contraption on her finger”

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“there’s nothing wrong

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with being fifty. Not unless you’re trying to be twenty-five”

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9
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“Great

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stars have great pride”

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10
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“I’ll

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do it again; I’ll do it again.”

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“De Mille

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always said I was his greatest star”

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12
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“I have never looked better in my life

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…because I have never been as happy in my life”

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13
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“Something was the matter alright.

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I was thinking about that girl of Artie’s, Miss Schafer.”

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14
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“We’ve made

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12 pictures together, his greatest successes”

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“I’ve waited

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20 years for this call. Now De Mille can wait until I’m good and ready.”

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“Tell him without me he

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wouldn’t have a job, because without me there would be no paramount pictures.”

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17
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“She must be

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a million years old”

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18
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“I can give her the brush.

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30 million fans have given her the brush, isn’t that enough”

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“A dozen press agents

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working overtime, can do terrible things to the human spirit.”

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“did you see them

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Did you see how they came”

21
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“You know crazy things happen

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in this business Norma. I hope you haven’t lost your sense of humour.”

22
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“Like an athlete

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training for the Olympic games”

23
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“She was absolutely determined

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to be ready for those cameras. The cameras that would never return.”

24
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Feeding her more and more lies,

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getting herself ready for a picture. What happens when she finds out?”

25
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“She never will.

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That is my job, it has been for years”

26
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“I discovered her

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when she was 16. I made her a star. I cannot let her be destroyed.”

27
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“It wasn’t until I

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got back to that peculiar prison of mine, I started to face the facts.”

28
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“You just can’t say those

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things to someone your crazy about.”

29
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“You would be killing yourself

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to an empty house. The audience left 20 years ago.”

30
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“I’m the greatest

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star of them all.”

31
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“No one ever

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leaves a star, that’s what makes them a star.”

32
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“Stars are

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ageless aren’t they.”

33
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“The dream she clung

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to so desperately, had completely infolded her.”

34
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“Was her life

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really empty as that”

35
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“You don’t yell

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at a sleepwalker, they might fall and break their neck”

36
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“How could she breath

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in that house full of Norma Desmond’s”

37
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“Afraid that it would

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remind her time has passed”

38
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“I wouldn’t look

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too closely at the postmarks”

39
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“waiting for those

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cameras that would never return”

40
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“Norma I haven’t done anything

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Of course you haven’t, I wouldn’t let you.”

41
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“They didn’t like my nose.

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I went out and fixed it… I come back and they were crazy about my nose, only to not like my acting.”

42
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“just a movie writer with

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a couple of B pictures to his credit”

43
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“only i seem to

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of lost my touch”

44
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“my agent told me

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it was dead as a doornail”

45
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“it was a great big

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white elephant of a place”

46
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“they were all her pictures

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thats all she wanted to see”

47
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“It’s just a rehash of

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something that wasn’t very good to begin with”

48
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“has it ever occured

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that i might have a life of my own”

49
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“Shut up. I’m rich.

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I’m richer than all this new Hollywood trash”

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