Preston Sturges quotes
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“I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.”
-- Preston SturgesSource : Preston Sturges, Sandy Sturges (1991). “Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges: His Life in His Words”, p.294, Simon and Schuster
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“When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.”
-- Preston SturgesSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one.”
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“After I saw a couple of pictures put out by my fellow comedy-directors, which seemed to have abandoned the fun in favor of the message, I wrote Sullivan's Travels to satisfy an urge to tell them that they were getting a little too deep-dish, to leave the preaching to the preachers.”
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“You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.”
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“Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.”
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“Now I've laid me down to die I pray my neighbors not to pry Too deeply into sins that I Not only cannot here deny But much enjoyed as life flew by.”
-- Preston SturgesSource : Biography/Pesonal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“A pretty girl is better than a plain one. A leg is better than an arm. A bedroom is better than a living room. An arrival is better that a departure. A birth is better than a death. A chase is better than a chat. A dog is better than a landscape. A kitten is better than a dog. A baby is better than a kitten. A kiss is better than a baby. A pratfall is better than anything.”
-- Preston SturgesSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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