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Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges (/ˈstɜːrdʒɪs/; born Edmund Preston Biden; August 29, 1898 – August 6, 1959) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director. In 1941, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film The Great McGinty, his first of three nominations in the category.

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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.

Baby, Chase, Departure, Dog, Girl, Landscape

The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one.

Career, Careers, Incredible, Incredibles, Thing

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.

Director, Directors, Night, Read, Shooting, Ukulele

I should have had the pickle.

Pickle, Pickles, Should, Should Have

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.

Cent, Dimes, Gone, Notebook, Thing

Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.

Educational, Film, Greatest, Medium, World

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.

Deny, Laid, Life, Praying, Pry, Sin

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.

Couple, Directors, Fellow, Fun, Travels, Wrote

You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.

Birthday, Cards, Fault, Handing, Onto, Theatre

Augustus

Augustus

Alain Delon

Alain Delon

L. Ron Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard

Shaun McNiff

Shaun McNiff

Richard Furman

Richard Furman

Confucius

Confucius

Ernest Renan

Ernest Renan

Vincent Price

Vincent Price

Evan Bayh

Evan Bayh

Juanita Moore

Juanita Moore

Chellie Pingree

Chellie Pingree

Mary Meeker

Mary Meeker