But show business has always been like that - any kind of show business. If these people didn't live intense and rather disordered lives, if their emotions didn't ride them too hard–well, they wouldn't be able to catch those emotions in flight and imprint them on a few feet of celluloid or project them across the footlights. Raymond Chandler
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  1. To say goodbye is to die a little.

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