Burt Prelutsky Quotes
In California, thieves have three choices: They can go to prison, Sacramento, or Washington D.C.
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Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film.
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.
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I am definitely going to college!
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Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as they found it. On those few occasions when major change does occur, it is rarely good news.
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A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics.
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If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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I don't ever knock anybody; that's bad manners.
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There are so many things you can do with a culinary degree.
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I know what I am capable of. I read a character, and if I can say to myself, 'I know this woman,' then I take the role.
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Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.
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We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.
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My intention... isn't to create controversy.
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If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.
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Success takes us to the top and away from those we love.
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You have so much freedom as an actor in your character's choices, and I really learned to take advantage of that.
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I'm eternally grateful to the penal system in California for saving my life.
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
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I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure.
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In California, thieves have three choices: They can go to prison, Sacramento, or Washington D.C.
