Preston Sturges Quotes
You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.
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Psychiatry causes so much death.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.
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Defending peace is the duty of all.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I don't like to direct myself.
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My character Saurabh Singhania is a rich, bad guy who is driven by revenge, so much that you feel like scratching his face or throwing stones at him. The intimate scenes in the trailer are creating quite a buzz... I wish they had shown more of the story instead of the sizzling scenes. The film is not about boldness or intimacy.
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I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.
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When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.
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I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
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People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
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I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.
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Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
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It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story.
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I think that's why I gravitated toward slightly broader... ummm, more conceptual kinds of movies, Underworld and Van Helsing. That was as much as I could actually give. But you're actually more of an animated figure. It does go against the grain, as an actor.
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Once in a while, when everything is just right, there is a moment of magic. People can live on moments of magic.
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I'm just not very funny.
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I am sure that, had I grown up with both parents, had I grown up in a safe environment, had I grown up with a feeling of safety rather than danger, I would not be the way I am.
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Your ability to concentrate single-mindedly on one thing, the most important thing, and stay at it until it is complete, is an essential prerequisite for success.
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I think it's wrong, ladies and gentlemen, for anybody to to be terrorized out of investigating anything. You have the right to read any book. You have the right to hear any speaker and that includes the vile communist that I'd just as soon gas - but you ought to hear him before we gas him.
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You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.
