Preston Sturges Quotes
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.
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I do or die, but I never cancel out.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.
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Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.
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Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
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Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.
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The only journey is the one within.
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My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'
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I fall asleep everywhere! Someone recently asked if they could publish a book of pictures of me sleeping because there are so many.
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I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through the research that I do, the reading.
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My mother is really the person I learned to curse from. She discourages me from saying that in interviews. But it's true.
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I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
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We had admired the presidential palace and parliament houses, paused beside the striking India Gate, inspected the 16th Century Humayun's Tomb-a forerunner to the Taj Mahal-and cruised past scores of international embassies.
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He is not bound so tightly by tradition that he will refuse a good idea simply for it being new, and not so wild that he would take a bad idea simply because it is new.
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I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers.
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True confession time: I never know where a book is going. I get a gut feeling the story is there, then pursue it with the enthusiasm of a hunting tiger on a trail. If I knew where I was going, I'd get bored out of my mind and stop writing.
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I know enough to know that when you're in a pickle... call Mom.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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I should have had the pickle.
