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.Preston Sturges
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
Taylor Swift -
Oakland kids are always the best.
Zendaya -
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.
Katharine Cornell -
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I'm a warrior for the middle class.
Barack Obama -
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.
Edmund Burke
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
Natalia Kills -
I love India.
Zubin Mehta -
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
Edith Wharton -
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
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.
Larry Hogan -
The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
Ice Cube
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
J. K. Simmons -
Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.
Ralph Marston -
I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.
Felicity Jones -
All my movies are achingly personal.
Quentin Tarantino -
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Orson Welles -
Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.
Iain Duncan Smith
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I don't own an ounce of the work I've ever done on 'Batman,' and I still work on 'Batman.' I love the character, I think it's a lot of fun, and it's kind of fun to be in that ballpark every once in a while, where you're seeing a different crowd.
Frank Miller -
I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.
Kate Millett -
I never imagined I would be in a film with Steve Martin. I was a little star struck, because I grew up watching his movies.
Beyonce Destiny's Child -
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Napoleon Hill -
I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.
J. C. Watts -
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.
Preston Sturges