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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It took you momma nine months to make it, but it only took that nigga thirty minutes to take it.
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The most impactful comics that I've read are the ones where the artists swung for the bleachers and tried to immerse you in their world.
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I've wanted to produce for a long time. I'd love to get a bunch of my girlfriends together - a female writer, a female director - and create something. Creatively, it's a different dimension. Why wouldn't people want that?
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There's this Ryan Gosling quote that I steal all the time - I watched an interview with him in Cannes - and he said picking roles is like listening to songs on the radio: There can be a lot of really great songs in a row, but then one comes on that just makes you want to dance.
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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.
