Preston Sturges Quotes
Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.
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The world is always in movement.
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I'm a competitive person by nature, and I have been in competitive companies, and I love to compete - joining a company where, certainly, there is a real fire in the belly to compete and bring that energy is something I look forward to.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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Reporters do decide what is news, but they don't invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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Every German child learns to speak English in school.
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Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.
