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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You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
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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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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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I never like seeing myself on screen.
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Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.
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For how long is it a duty to study the Law? To the day of death.
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I am in show business. I don't, for a minute, ever forget that this is a business that I'm involved in, and it plays by business' rules.
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Use some reverence. Remember what he was only a minute ago. You wouldn't have dared laid a hand on him.
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I think, for me, nature has always been my main point of reference. I think as a child I was fascinated by landscapes and nature wherever I went. I was able to travel all over Denmark, which is not that large, everywhere in this country where I've been I always loved the landscape.
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I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.
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The great thing about not having a script is there's nothing you have to shoot that day. When you start filming, you can shoot anything you want. There's no pressure to shoot anything. Whatever interests you that day is what you're shooting. That's a big liberation that makes it more enjoyable and more relaxed. I think if you have that kind of framework it can make it a much more satisfying thing to work on and to watch as well.
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Only a fool can't be fooled.
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We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.
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You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.
