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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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 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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India has the capability to create a fairly extensive defence manufacturing capability in many areas, and as a country and as an industry, we have matured in terms of technology and capability to make this happen.
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I want to do a romantic comedy. Like a 'When Harry Met Sally' romantic comedy... A really sweet, show-my-vulnerability kind of role.
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The government union bosses are the most powerful politicians in Springfield.
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If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
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An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality.
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Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the living corporeal individual.
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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.
