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Theater in which you eat is the oldest form of theater.
- Preston Sturges
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For a southern belle, my grandmother was remarkably modern. She threw my grandfather out, for one thing - some kind of argument about bourbon whiskey - shortly after the birth of their third child, and then went back to school to get herself a teaching certificate.
- Preston Sturges
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#Back
#Birth
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According to my mother, positively no one, least of all herself, had even the faintest suspicion that she was heavy with child at the time of my birth.
- Preston Sturges
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#Mother
#She
#Suspicion
#Time
Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.
- Preston Sturges
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#Immigrants
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Our gymnasium was remarkable and had more stuff in it than one could dream up in a nightmare. Furthermore, every boy had to use every piece of it during gymnasium class.
- Preston Sturges
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Despite my express wish, I was not left in Chicago, but taken to Paris to live, and I did not see my father for many years. But we never stopped loving each other, and in 1940 he died in my arms in Hollywood, where he had come to be near me at the end.
- Preston Sturges
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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 Sturges
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#Shooting
The hook is a word or an idea spoken by one character which gives the next character something to hook onto when he responds or, like a trapeze artist, gives him something to swing from on his way to another point of view.
- Preston Sturges
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#He
#Point Of View
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I never write down to my audiences. I respect honest sentiment and honest pratfalls.
- Preston Sturges
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#Never
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#Sentiment
I am, of course, directly descended from Brian Boru, the last king of Ireland, a fact certified by my mother and therefore beyond dispute. But as everybody else with a drop of Irish blood in his carcass is also a guaranteed descendant of the old billy goat, I am not overly arrogant because of this royal strain.
- Preston Sturges
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The United States owes a great debt to its inventors. Far from being grateful to them, it places every obstruction in their way and makes it enormously difficult to secure a patent.
- Preston Sturges
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It is probably a very good thing for a boy to learn to live with enmity, as opposed to an atmosphere of love and affection, as it hardens him and gives him a taste of what he is going to run into later in life.
- Preston Sturges
#Affection
#Good
#Life
#Live
#Love
You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.
- Preston Sturges
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#Next
#Saying
The more you stand in the limelight, the more scarred you will become and the more you will love the limelight.
- Preston Sturges
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#More
#Stand
#Will
Though I believe in God, I don't believe in religion for everybody. Some people who are a little weak and don't want to shoulder any responsibility need Catholicism. For people at the other extreme, there is Christian Science... I think a powerful conscience is worth all the religions put together.
- Preston Sturges
#God
#People
#Religion
#Science
#Together
I am quite sure that a little man who braves ridicule to improve the lot of his fellow men, and is thanked by their jibes, is an interesting character.
- Preston Sturges
#Character
#I Am
#Interesting
#Man
#Men
I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.
- Preston Sturges
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#Literature
#Rather
#Theory
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