John Garfield famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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With my brains and your looks, we could go places.
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England has been praised for turning out intelligent, adult pictures whereas Hollywood has been severely censured for turning out junk. I don't think criticism is a valid one because, in defense of Hollywood, we have censorship problems England doesn't have. I'm not speaking of the license to do sexy stuff. I'm speaking of the license to present adult ideas and viewpoints, which we lack and which means in turn that many of our pictures lack intelligent content.
-- John Garfield
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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Congenial labor is essence of happiness.
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Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head - learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.
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But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery.
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It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot
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Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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