George S. Kaufman Quotes
You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.
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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.
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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.
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You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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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.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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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.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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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.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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2007, according to a Harris poll, 71 percent of Americans believed that climate change was real, that it was human caused.
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Several southern actors are coming to Mumbai. Likewise, many Bollywood actors are appearing down South or borrowing ideas from southern films.
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I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
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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.
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You could send your soul after the good you had expected, instead of turning it to the good you had got. You could refuse the real good; you could make the real fruit taste insipid by thinking of the other.
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Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner, there ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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I want to create work that extends beyond myself because I always thought it was a way to change the general rules about art, and also to give an impulse to something else. It's a transformation about attitude. Most of the time, when someone buys the object, it's 100 percent transferred to them. I don't think this is true. Something exists within the object that can never be appropriated. This little part, I try to make it visible.
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You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.
