Preston Sturges Quotes
Much as I disliked the un-American idea of marrying a lady with a dowry, I must admit that little Mrs. Godfrey's little private income put everything in a faintly different light.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.
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Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
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This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.
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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.
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I love Wingfoot; I'm a member of Wingfoot. It's a great course.
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I've always wanted to explore different types of roles and prove to others that Divyanka is not all about being a timid dulhan.
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I die without seeing dawn's light shining on my country... You, who will see it, welcome it for me...don't forget those who fell during the nighttime.
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I'm going to leave WWII. I considered and rejected doing something on the Pacific. Fourteen years is enough. I'd like to take on a different challenge and probably a different era. But it will be another war. It's what I do.
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Much as I disliked the un-American idea of marrying a lady with a dowry, I must admit that little Mrs. Godfrey's little private income put everything in a faintly different light.
