Preston Sturges Quotes
The camera must point at the exact spot the audience wishes to look at any given moment. To find that spot is absurdly easy: you only have to remember where you were looking at the time the scene was made.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
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I do not like violence.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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Yashpal, writing in the nineteen-fifties, sought to indict this culture of men, Hindus and Muslims alike, who value their freedom and power over the rights and lives of women.
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There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
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Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.
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One of the litmus tests for judicial conservatism is the idea of judicial restraint - that courts should give substantial deference to the decisions of the political process. When Congress and the president enact a law, conservatives generally say, judges should avoid 'legislating from the bench.'
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Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.
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With social networks these days, everyone needs to know everything all the time. But the problem is, people are so used to short snippets of information that no one has any attention span anymore. I don't, anyway.
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When you are reading about a book, you focus on the main character, of course. When you have something in common with them and connect with them, you remember the lessons they learned, and then you can apply them to your life. So you can live the best life you can.
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I've always been drawn to the message of 'Be yourself. Love yourself.' I need to be reminded of that all time.
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The camera must point at the exact spot the audience wishes to look at any given moment. To find that spot is absurdly easy: you only have to remember where you were looking at the time the scene was made.
