Preston Sturges Quotes
In 'Remember the Night,' love reformed her and corrupted him, which gave us the finely balanced moral that one man's meat is another man's poison.
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I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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I've taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I've actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.
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Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
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I've only dressed in drag three or four times.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.
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There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
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California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
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Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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Your marriage is in trouble if your wife says, 'You're only interested in one thing,' and you can't remember what it is.
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I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton.
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We are not going to do ourselves any favors by buying into what's printed in newspapers.
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In 'Remember the Night,' love reformed her and corrupted him, which gave us the finely balanced moral that one man's meat is another man's poison.
