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Preston Sturges Quotes

The more you stand in the limelight, the more scarred you will become and the more you will love the limelight.

Preston Sturges

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: August 29, 1898 - August 6, 1959

Topics

Love Stand You Will Become More

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

Andrei Platonov

Home Future Country Class Working

I'm constantly playing this game in my head where I'm thinking, 'Can this quote be pared down and misinterpreted?' It doesn't matter what outlet I'm talking to and how comprehensive the interview is, because I have to think in terms of, 'Right, but 'People' magazine could just take this one quote and take it out of context.'

People Game Think Thinking Talking

On any given day, I'm likely to be working at home, hunched over this keyboard, typing Great Thoughts and Beautiful Sentences - or so they seem at the time, like those beautifully flecked and iridescent stones one finds at the seashore that gradually dry into dull gray pebbles.

Home Beautiful Great Time Day Gray

If you ask anybody at Microsoft, could they spend more money, all of them would say yes. They should say that! They should say, 'Yes, I have so many terrific innovative, interesting, awesomely impactful ideas that you have to get me more money.' I love that. I love that energy, and I listen to some really fascinating arguments.

Love Money Me Ideas Energy You

I've always just given myself to the band, if you know what I mean, and been busy with that.

Myself Busy You Know Band Mean

Over the years, a lot of rappers - Lil' Wayne, Ice Cube - have used my name in their songs. I'm a real touchstone of history.

History Name Ice Real Over Years

Generally, with films, what tends to happen is that a few people get a lot of momentum out of it, and a lot of people don't.

People Momentum Happen Out Get Few

If I worried about pollsters, I wouldn't be president.

President About Worried

I started off in radio, then made little films for Granada. I applied for a job at 'Weekend World,' and they turned me down; I'd also applied to the Foreign Office, which accepted me.

Jonathan Powell

Job Me World Weekend Down Office

There's an enormous difference between voting for a candidate because you hate another ethnic group and voting for a candidate because he's a member of your ethnic group.

Hate Voting You Group Difference

There are a lot of good women in New York.

Good Women New York New Lot York

It may be an instinct, it is with me anyway, when you're presenting something to the world, to make it as beautiful as you can.

Beautiful Me World You May Instinct

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