Budd Schulberg Quotes

• Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

  Budd Schulberg

  Community, Interconnection

  FaceBook post by Budd Schulberg from Apr 08, 2015

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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.

  Budd Schulberg

  Listening, Novelists, Used

  "Budd Schulberg, 'On the Waterfront' Writer, Dies at 95" by Tim Weiner, www.nytimes.com. August 5, 2009.

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• You can't eat your friends and have them too

  Budd Schulberg

  Funny, Friendship, Friends

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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.

  Budd Schulberg

  Fear, People, Mind

  Budd Schulberg (2011). “What Makes Sammy Run?”, p.95, Vintage

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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.

  Budd Schulberg

  People, Littles, Consistent

  Budd Schulberg (2011). “What Makes Sammy Run?”, p.60, Vintage

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• Silence is the sure sign that youre on your way out in Hollywood.

  Budd Schulberg

  Silence, Hollywood, Way

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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

  Budd Schulberg

  Tough, Conformity, Conform

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• Tell Papa I admire him but from now on I plan to admire him from as far away as I can get.

  Budd Schulberg

  Papa, Far Away, Admire

  Budd Schulberg (2012). “Sparring with Hemingway: And Other Legends of the Fight Game”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.

  Budd Schulberg

  Inspirational, Car, Cynical

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• Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.

  Budd Schulberg

  Fighting, Dozen, Way

  Budd Schulberg (2012). “Sparring with Hemingway: And Other Legends of the Fight Game”, p.287, Open Road Media

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• I coulda' had class. I coulda' been a contender! But instead I got a one way ticket to Palookaville.

  Budd Schulberg

  Class, Way, Tickets

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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.

  Budd Schulberg

  Comfort, Dignity, Fighter

  "Barry Mcguigan: Brilliant Schulberg Budd was more than a contender", www.mirror.co.uk. August 8, 2009.

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• Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

  Budd Schulberg

  Nuts, Stuff, The Waterfront

  "Fictional character: Terry Malloy". "On the Waterfront", www.imdb.com. 1954.

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• In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for worse; it is in life, has not expired yet.

  Budd Schulberg

  Expression, Goes On, Ancient

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• You know what's wrong with our waterfront? It's the love of a lousy buck. It's making the love of a buck, the cushy job, more important than the love of man. It's forgetting that every fellow down here's your brother in Christ.

  Budd Schulberg

  Money, Brother, Jobs

  Budd Schulberg (2012). “On the Waterfront: The Final Shooting Script”, p.168, Open Road Media

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• I don't like the country. The crickets make me nervous.

  Budd Schulberg

  Country, Nervous, Cricket

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• As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

  Budd Schulberg

  Hate, Boxing, Boxing Champions

  Budd Schulberg (2012). “Sparring with Hemingway: And Other Legends of the Fight Game”, p.241, Open Road Media

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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.

  Budd Schulberg

  Sports, Thinking, Games

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