George Montgomery Quotes

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

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• This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.

  

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• But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.

  

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• Work is the thing that happens around the game time.

  

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• I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.

  

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• We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.

  

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• Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.

  

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• I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.

  

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• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

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• By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.

  

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• I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

  

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• All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.

  

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• I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.

  

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• He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

  

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• Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

  

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• If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.

  

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• There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.

  

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• As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wrote this on a computer,' or, 'You took a plane to this conference.' So your opinion isn't valid.

  

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• Warning: Do not read this story right after eating. In fact, don't read it right before eating either. In fact, just to be safe, don't read this story if you're ever planning to eat again.

  

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• To take the ugly language out of 'Ragtime' is to sanitize it, and that does it a great disservice.

  

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• I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.

  

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• I watched the 'Seven Samurai' a lot because I loved it growing up. I can't describe to you how powerful that was. When you're a kid, you can't watch an almost-three-hour movie, but this was a war I just never saw before, with these samurai. I could relate to it, just being poor.

  

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• I want to devour you with my eyes, and tell you over and over that you've never been so beautiful.

  

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• I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

  

  George Montgomery
  • Life
  • Up
  • Age