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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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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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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I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
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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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Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.
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Well, I think women across Australia, particularly, are a bit fed up with this constant attack and belittling of women in politics, and particularly the role of a female as a prime minister.
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Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
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Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.
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I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver the promises of its dream to all its citizens equally.
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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.
