Preston Sturges Quotes
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.
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Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.
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You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband or wife very passionately and have a balance in your life. I live by balance.
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A lot of my friends - I am the only white person in their circle. Being able to hear other perspectives besides the white conservative approach has really given me a perspective that I want to share and challenge people to think about.
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Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of what we know.
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I remember seeing Amy Sedaris in a stint where she played somebody's alcoholic mother in one scene and in the next she was Ross Perot. I remember thinking she was so awesome.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
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Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.
