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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'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.
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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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Whenever I am asked about my personal relationships, I politely reply, 'No comments.'
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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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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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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 took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.
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The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of the universe has this principle besides, that it cannot be compelled even by any external cause to generate anything harmful to itself.
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Wherever we've gone around the world, we've found quite significant gaps: the holy texts, no matter which one you turn to, has ambiguity in it around slavery. That, we knew, was being used as justification by slavers all over the world.
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You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.
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Let us have an education, that shall practically develop our thinking faculties and manhood; and then, and only then, shall we be able to vie with our oppressors, go where we may . . .
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You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake, say that you are not hurt!" It was worth a wound -- it was worth many wounds -- to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation.
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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.
