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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Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
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If you can visualize the whole of spring and see Paradise with the eye of belief, you may understand the utter majesty of everlasting Beauty. If you respond to that Beauty with the beauty of belief and worship, you will be a most beautiful creature.
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I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.
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You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.
