George S. Kaufman Quotes

You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.

George S. Kaufman

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• When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Taken

• I don't care if you are for having Mexico pay for the border wall, or you want to repeal and replace Obamacare, or if you want women to have complete access to reproductive rights - I don't care. The fact is, if you don't get the nuclear issue right, none of the other ones matter.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Women
  • Want
  • Care

• You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • You
  • Always
  • Sometimes

• When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Young
  • Young People

• I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Civilization
  • Felt
  • Poison

• Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Opportunity
  • Confused

• The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Business
  • Simple

• My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Know
  • Day
  • Always

• A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Thoughts
  • Product

• The one thing I loved so much about making 'Pitch Perfect 2' - especially in comparison to a movie like 'Ten Thousand Saints' - is you can go and be yourself, and you just know that all your weirdness and craziness and imperfections are completely embraced and accepted.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Movie
  • Perfect
  • Yourself

• Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Song
  • Place

• God primes the pump of obligation.

  

  A. P. Martinich
  • God
  • Obligation
  • Pump

• 2007, according to a Harris poll, 71 percent of Americans believed that climate change was real, that it was human caused.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Real
  • Change
  • Climate Change

• Several southern actors are coming to Mumbai. Likewise, many Bollywood actors are appearing down South or borrowing ideas from southern films.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Ideas
  • Down
  • Borrowing

• I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.

  

  Edgar Guest
  • World
  • Family
  • Shopping

• Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Political
  • Practice
  • Doctor

• You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • People
  • Tired
  • View

• I never like seeing myself on screen.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Seeing

• American workers are the best in the world. They teach our children, care for our sick and elderly, build our communities, and much more.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • World
  • Children
  • American

• Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

  

  Lord Mountbatten
  • Children
  • Real
  • Family

• Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however improbable that might seem to him. Note here for the record that he is not someone with a special fixation on young girls. Until now, all the women in his life have been more or less his own age. Pilar therefore does not represent an embodiment of some ideal female type for him--she is merely herself, a small piece of luck he stumbled across one afternoon in a public park, an exception to every rule.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Age
  • Girl
  • Special

• The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.

  

  Watt Key
  • Faith
  • Voice
  • Fool

• Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Fool
  • Recognition

• You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.

  

  George S. Kaufman
  • Fool
  • Living
  • Paradise