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" Nobody could emerge from a childhood at MGM unscathed. "
Michael Korda
Emerge
Nobody
MGM
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" The rich and famous expect to get a lot for their story, whether they are writing it themselves or not. It's not that they need the money, of course; it's a question of ego, like catching the biggest fish. "
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Ego
Famous
" I did meet Sen. Robert Kennedy, and it taught me something about political charisma. "
Michael Korda
Political
Meet
Me
" My father and his brothers never mentioned to their English wives and children that they were Jewish. Being Hungarian was exotic and foreign enough to begin with, and so long as they were not asked, they found it easier, from 1919 on, to let the matter drop. "
Michael Korda
Long
Matter
Children
" Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared. "
Michael Korda
Always
Right
Situation
" Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life. "
Michael Korda
Nothing
Significance
Art
" When the Second World War came to an end in Europe, my uncle Sir Alexander Korda was the first filmmaker to reopen offices in Germany and Austria. "
Michael Korda
First
Uncle
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" Many years ago, I had the pleasure of editing a book by Joan Crawford, who, like Norma Desmond, was still a big star; it was just the movies that had gotten smaller. "
Michael Korda
Book
Editing
Pleasure
" Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being. "
Michael Korda
Life
Real
Some People
" Nothing is more difficult than to recreate in all its complexity than a distant age, and not only to get it right but make it seem fresh and relevant. "
Michael Korda
Fresh
Nothing
Age
" The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own. "
Michael Korda
Rules
You
Own
" When someone has spent a lifetime trying to survive a death sentence, the last thing you want is your children uncovering what you have been at such pains to conceal. "
Michael Korda
You
Someone
Death
" T. E. Lawrence was far more than a glamorous, swashbuckling, heroic figure in flowing robes mounted on a camel, leading the Arab tribes against the Turks in World War One. "
Michael Korda
More
Glamorous
Far
" Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. "
Michael Korda
Study
Never
Hidden
" Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity. "
Michael Korda
Action
Act
Eternity
" An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. "
Michael Korda
Ounce
Pound
Worth
" The huge, turgid work of history, sinking under the weight of its own 'politically correct' thesis and its foot- and source notes, is not the British way of writing history, and never has been. "
Michael Korda
Way
Work
Own
" It's often said that everybody has a story to tell, and I suppose that's true, but the problem is that most of them aren't worth telling. "
Michael Korda
True
Story
Worth
" When I was a child in England before the war, Christmas pudding always contained at least one shiny new sixpence, and it was considered a sign of great good luck for the new year to find one in your helping of the pudding. "
Michael Korda
Luck
Good Luck
Child
" It is hard to celebrate the past in an ecumenical way, or even in a fair-minded one, apparently. The trouble with the past is not just that it's behind us, it's that it is not even over yet. "
Michael Korda
Way
Hard
Past
" Speaking as somebody who is half English and half Hungarian, World War I still seems to me a familiar and seismic event, as if it had only just ended. "
Michael Korda
Event
Me
Only
" My father fought on the side of the Central Powers, as a soldier in the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Army, my maternal grandfather fought in the British Army, on different sides, and both were so traumatized by the experience that they never talked about it. "
Michael Korda
Army
Father
Grandfather
" In the Roman world, and in the worlds around it that Romans sought to subdue and control, the gods were merciless, frivolous, prone to set traps for humans, and largely indifferent to the unprivileged bulk of humankind, who in any case did not expect their fate in the afterworld to be any better than it had been on earth. "
Michael Korda
Who
Better
Control
" I'd fought in the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, having left Oxford to do so. "
Michael Korda
Having
Revolution
Oxford
" The first thing to be said about 'Prague Winter,' former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's new book, is that she very wisely chooses to confront early on in it her apparent surprise at learning late in life that she was born Jewish. "
Michael Korda
Winter
Book
Learning
" I never met Peter O'Toole, but he one was of those rare actors whose success was defined by a single role. His incandescent performance in David Lean's 'Lawrence of Arabia' is one that nobody who saw it will ever forget. "
Michael Korda
Success
Performance
Nobody
" One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. "
Michael Korda
Way
Goals
Keep
" Those of us who have not had the experience of being invaded by the Germans are in no position to criticize those who accommodated themselves to German occupation, with its ferocious punishments for those who expressed even the mildest opposition. "
Michael Korda
Position
Opposition
Experience
" Most biographers are apt to be discouraged by the sheer volume of papers left behind by their subject. "
Michael Korda
Discouraged
Most
Behind
" I have an admiration for Mr. Eastwood that borders on the kind that I have for the Grand Canyon. Like it, he is craggy, worn, awesomely impressive and unique, a living four-star tourist attraction that, in the formulaic words of the Guide Michelin, 'vaut le voyage.' "
Michael Korda
Unique
Words
Grand Canyon
" The normal reaction of a publisher when faced with an author with a bee in his bonnet is to grab the check and run. "
Michael Korda
Run
Reaction
Bee