George Cukor Quotes
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I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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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 have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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I got a big mouth.
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I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.
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I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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A novel can enlarge the empathy and imagination of both its author and its reader, and my experience, that sense of enlargement is most intense when I'm transported beyond the narrow limits of my daily life.
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Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.
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From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.
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Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse.
