Preston Sturges Quotes

How many years and how many pictures does it take to win the confidence of Paramount? How many years before my fellow workers say, 'I know he is doing his best?'

Preston Sturges

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ConfidenceBestWinDoingPictures

There's something special about writing by hand, writing with a fountain pen, and there's something special about writing into a book, to take a blank book and turn it into an actual book.

Joe Haldeman

WritingBookPenSpecialHandTurn

Immigration is not going to be a 'side issue' in 2016 - it is the issue.

Tom Tancredo

ImmigrationSideGoingIssue

You can't please all the people all the time.

Miranda Richardson

TimePeopleYouPlease

You are born with a voice. And in a way, you don't choose what you want to sing. It's the quality of your voice that matches a certain repertoire, and that's what you're going to sing.

Juan Diego Florez

QualityVoiceYouChooseBornWant

Many people don't understand ring control. They think they do until they're against someone who really understands how to set traps, how to create holes in the octagon that they fall into.

Conor McGregor

PeopleControlThinkSomeoneFall

If you want to go for the title, you go for the title, and you fight. You don't run away; you fight.

Bobby Lashley

FightYouGoWantRunAway

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Alfred de Vigny

BeautyArtNeverIdealOughtExcept

The Red Viper enjoys life. He does not discriminate in his pleasures. This is the way he understands life, to live it to its fullest. And to limit yourself in terms of experience doesn't make any sense to him - what's beautiful is beautiful.

Pedro Pascal

LifeLiveBeautifulExperienceRed

I got fired from a movie that ended up being called 'Windows,' which Gordon Willis, the cinematographer, directed. I got fired because he refused to cast Meryl Streep, who at the time was at Yale. I told him I thought he was an idiot, and he fired me.

Scott Rudin

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I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.

Scott Weiland

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I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I'm with them every minute of the day.

Tom Berenger

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As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down.

Tina Yothers

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