Preston Sturges Quotes
Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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Post traumatic stress disorder starts out with nightmares, flashbacks and actually reliving the event. And this happens over and over and over and over in your mind. If you let it go on, it can become chronic and become hard if not impossible to treat.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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The story of a passionate woman in a stale marriage is as old as Helen of Troy.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
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I've failed once or twice real big, independent.
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If you kill someone, it shows that you are afraid of that person.
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I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.
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When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.
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If people don't know who you are, they're not going to listen to your message. And not everybody pays attention to politicians by watching Fox News and CNN.
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Freedom is for fun.
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I am very lucky in that I can eat what I want and don't have to follow any special diet.
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I love apple juice.
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I'm addicted to avocados, and I'll put them with anything, particularly chillies. Can you imagine if they became extinct? That would be like the apocalypse, no?
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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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I think if your goal is for everything to be okay, that's a mistake. To achieve that goal, the only obstacle you'd have to face tomorrow is to eliminate all risk ... I've made the decision that I'm never trying to make everything okay. I'm trying for there to be more loose ends, not fewer loose ends.
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I have no patience with dinosaurs.
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I never get into the details regarding my own personal situation.
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If you aint like me, you aint gotta like me.
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Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.
