Budd Schulberg Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Silence is the sure sign that youre on your way out in Hollywood.”
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“You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going”
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“You can't eat your friends and have them too”
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“Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.”
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“Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.”
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“I coulda' had class. I coulda' been a contender! But instead I got a one way ticket to Palookaville.”
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“I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.”
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“I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society while being as entertaining as possible. Because if you don’t entertain, nobody’s listening.”
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“Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.”
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“Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.”
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“As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.”
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“Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.”
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“Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.”
-- Budd Schulberg
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