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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
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I've wanted to write good pop music, beautiful pop music - not just throwaways. I've always wanted to make it sound luscious and beautiful and cinematic.
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Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.
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When I spend a lot of time reading, discussing, or thinking about an area, I'll often really appreciate why a strong viewpoint is true and come to very firm conclusions. But if I am later exposed to a strong opposing view, I frequently find this countervailing view persuasive as well.
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It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.
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I'm so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
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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.
