Preston Sturges Quotes
The hook is a word or an idea spoken by one character which gives the next character something to hook onto when he responds or, like a trapeze artist, gives him something to swing from on his way to another point of view.
Quotes to Explore
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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Oakland kids are always the best.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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I love India.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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We're the first not-white family to ever live in the governor's mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I'm the only white guy in the house.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
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Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.
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My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
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What's fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.
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Most people probably don't even know what toothpaste they buy; they just recognize the box on the shelf.
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We cannot solve a problem by saying, "It's not my problem." We cannot solve a problem by hoping that someone else will solve it for us. I can solve a problem only when I say, "This is my problem and it's up to me to solve it."
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The hook is a word or an idea spoken by one character which gives the next character something to hook onto when he responds or, like a trapeze artist, gives him something to swing from on his way to another point of view.
