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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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.
Ford Frick -
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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There's always that stigma of, 'Women shouldn't box,' or stereotypes of what a female boxer should look like. I don't think the men really have to deal with that - to tell people they're a boxer.
Mandy Bujold
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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I want Tom Clancy, the Maryland novelist, to write the story of the rest of my life.
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I think mine's such a mish-mash now: I get criticised for sounding like a Yank when I come home, and everybody thinks I'm Australian when I'm in America.
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You have to have really thick skin. Art is obviously there to be criticized and there to be taken in different ways. Not everyone is going to like what you 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.
