Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.

Sunset Boulevard

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Topic

Speaking ill of the dead Death

Speaker

Joe Gillis

Actor

William Holden

Source

Sunset Boulevard

Medium

Film

Genre

Film noir Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1950 1950s 20th century

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Sunset Boulevard. Directed by Billy Wilder, Paramount Pictures, 1950.

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I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain.

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

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Speaker
Woody Allen
Source
On Being Funny: Woody Allen and His Comedy
Language
English
Time
1975 1970s 20th century
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Citation

Allen, Woody. Quoted in On Being Funny: Woody Allen and Comedy, written by Eric Lax. Charterhouse, 1975.

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What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. Some man you just can’t reach.

Cool Hand Luke

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Medium
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Genre
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Language
English
Time
1967 1960s 20th century
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Cool Hand Luke. Directed by Stuart Rosenberg, Jalem Productions, 1967.