Anita Loos Quotes

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• I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

  Anita Loos

  Women, Justice, Diversity

  Quoted in the Observer, 30 Dec1973.

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• Memory is more indelible than ink.

  Anita Loos

  Memories, Ink, Indelible

  Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult

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• Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes.

  Anita Loos

  Gentleman, Brunette, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

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• Fate keeps on happening.

  Anita Loos

  Fate, Destiny, Happenings

  Anita Loos, Cari Beauchamp (2003). “Anita Loos Rediscovered: Film Treatments and Fiction by Anita Loos, Creator of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”, p.298, Univ of California Press

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• I've always loved high style in low company.

  Anita Loos

  Style, Sawdust, Gowns

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• The wrong side of the tracks is livelier.

  Anita Loos

  Track, Sides

  Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult

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• A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

  Anita Loos

  Girl, Thinking, Brain

  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925) ch. 1

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• Any girl who was a lady would not even think of having such a good time that she did not remember to hang on to her jewelry.

  Anita Loos

  Girl, Time, Thinking

  1925 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, ch.4.

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• A bit of conversational sex makes a pleasant climate for creative effort.

  Anita Loos

  Sex, Creativity, Effort

  Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult

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• Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of mental crack-up. Yes, if we were childish in the past, I wish we could be children once again.

  Anita Loos

  Children, Believe, Past

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• Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to each other. Less and less do men need women. More and more do gentlemen prefer gentlemen.

  Anita Loos

  Sex, Men, Opposites

  Anita Loos, Ray Pierre Corsini (1985). “Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings”

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• And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?

  Anita Loos

  Age, Pasta, Silhouettes

  Anita Loos, Ray Pierre Corsini (1985). “Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings”

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• Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

  Anita Loos

  Pleasure, Paid, Insipid

  Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult

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• I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.

  Anita Loos

  Running, Home, Thinking

  Anita Loos (1925). “"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes": The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady”

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• I don't think the written word is important in movies anymore and the really great movies are done by great directors who in many cases write their own scripts. I think it's gotten to be more of a visual thing than an audible thing.

  Anita Loos

  Writing, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.

  Anita Loos

  Stars, World, Normal

  Anita Loos (1951). “A Mouse is Born”

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• I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.

  Anita Loos

  Style, Gowns, Sawdust

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• That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.

  Anita Loos

  Art, Sex, Dirty

  Anita Loos, Ray Pierre Corsini (1985). “Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings”

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• One might feel that, at my age, I should look on life with more gravity. After all, I've been privileged to listen, firsthand, tosome of the most profound thinkers of my daywho were all beset by gloom over the condition the world had gotten into. Then why can't I view it with anything but amusement?

  Anita Loos

  Funny, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.

  Anita Loos

  Land, Heyday, Climate

  Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult

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• Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.

  Anita Loos

  Order, Bored, Bores

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• Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life.

  Anita Loos

  Writing, Acting, Talent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was born in the theatre. My father was a small time impresario on the West Coast and I was acting from the age of 7, but I started to write when I was 12 and by the time I was 14 I was making more money than I was acting.

  Anita Loos

  Father, Writing, Age

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I used to think that looking across a pillow into the fabulous face of Buster Keaton would be a more thrilling destiny than any screen career.

  Anita Loos

  Thinking, Destiny, Careers

  Anita Loos (1977). “Cast of Thousands”, Smithmark Pub

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• I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.

  Anita Loos

  Girl, Doe, Boards

  Anita Loos (2014). “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”, p.26, Liveright Publishing

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