# Quote — Woody Allen, Mere Anarchy

> I was supremely confident my flair for atmosphere and characterization would sparkle alongside the numbing mulch ground out by studio hacks. Certainly the space atop my mantel might be better festooned by a gold statuette than by the plastic dipping bird that now bobbed there ad infinitum.

- Author: [Woody Allen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/woody-allen.md)
- Book: [Mere Anarchy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/woody-allen/mere-anarchy.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/woody-allen/mere-anarchy/i-was-supremely

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> With that, he scribbled in an additional ninety thousand dollars on the estimate, which had waxed to the girth of the Talmud while rivaling it in possible interpretations.

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> She quarreled with the nanny and accused her of brushing Misha's teeth sideways rather than up and down.

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> Bidnick gorges himself on Viagra, but the dosage makes him hallucinate and causes him to imagine he is Pliny the Elder.

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