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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In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.
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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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The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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I was very aware of performers who have a persona, whether it's Siouxsie Sioux or Patti Smith or Lydia Lunch, and I'm just this middle-class girl coming from a more conventional upbringing, this California person. But in a way I felt like it's important to represent the normal.
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My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player.
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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.
