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Preston Sturges Quotes

The camera must point at the exact spot the audience wishes to look at any given moment. To find that spot is absurdly easy: you only have to remember where you were looking at the time the scene was made.

Preston Sturges

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time Moment Looking Camera You Look

My parents are both from Belfast. I have an Irish passport and a British passport, and I go back every summer and every Christmas, and sometimes I pop over during the year to say hi, and, of course, celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

Stella Maxwell

Day Parents Celebrate Year Back Go

Lunch, for me, usually consists of lots of salad and sometimes smoked or grilled salmon, tofu, or feta cheese. I make sure to add a lot of greens to my salad. I accompany this with some dal.

Sridevi

Me Lunch Cheese Sometimes Salad Add

My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me.

Sidney Poitier

Family Father Mother Women Be Kind

In Gerald Ford, the man he was in public, he was also that man in private.

Tom Brokaw

Man He Ford Public Private Also

I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.

Riz Ahmed

Comedy Find Go More Inspiration Rap

When I've finished one project, I start thinking about the next.

Mike Rutherford

Start Thinking Project Next Finished

I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing.

Minnie Driver

Children Time Long Career Long Time

Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.

Josh Billings

Man Angels Little Been Than Created

I think 2016 will be an absolutely pivotal year for our nation, and I'm running against Michael Bennet because I think he's dangerous. He doesn't understand the enemies that we face.

Jon Keyser

Face Think Year Dangerous Understand

Picture books are the distillation of an idea, and you have to use just the right words. I love that, and I try to use a lot of action verbs.

Denise Fleming

Love Words Action Picture You Try

When there is a calamity, don't think about the party, think beyond the party.

Sharad Pawar

Think Party Beyond Calamity About

There's so much free material on the Internet you can learn from, and some people are pure self-starters: they pick up computers and teach themselves everything. Certainly there are millions of people like that. But at the same time, I think it's a pretty small percentage of the population.

Tyler Cowen

Time People Small Computers Think