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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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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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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I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.
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I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It's difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I'd done it more. I can't complain. I've had a fair crack of the whip.
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The mind is just another muscle.
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Can we change the world? No, but hell, we can all try.
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I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.
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The way that I sing is very mumbled-together, and so I guess I'm kind of stuck with it now.
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Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.
