Cigarette Quotes - Page 16

• People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives with distractions to shut out the chaos.

  Rob Payne

  Laughter, Filling Up, Shopping

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, Chapter 26, 2003.

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• The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes.

  Helen Bevington

  Slavery, Guilty, Poor

  Helen Smith Bevington (1971). “The house was quiet and the world was calm”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Actors always loved props and-so instead of a hat or an umbrella, they feel really comfortable with a cigarette as a prop.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Actors, Hats, Umbrella

  Interview with Dominic Bellone, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos.

  Ariel Gore

  Sex, Writing, Burritos

  Ariel Gore (2007). “How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights”, p.41, Three Rivers Press

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• Why Hollywood has killed so many movie stars with cigarette smoking, with the romanticization of it from John Wayne to Humphrey Bogart, all those people had cancer, died of it, and sold cigarettes their whole career.

  Chris Hayes

  Stars, Cancer, Careers

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting" .

  Joe Eszterhas

  Smoking, Acting, Phrases

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• In the olden days, of course, cigarette companies would pay to have their product advertised in movies and to have actors smoke cigarettes.[Ronald Reagan used to do it.]

  Joe Eszterhas

  Actors, Pay, Used

  Transcript to Oct. 9 at Cleveland State University, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• It is hard to quit smoking. Every one of them looks real good to me right about now. Every cigarette looks like it was made by God, rolled by Jesus and moistened shut with Claudia Schiffer's pussy.

  Bill Hicks

  Jesus, Real, Smoking

  "Bill Hicks: Revelations". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• It [smoking] was like an aphrodisiac. Actors would say let's have another cigarette on that great scenes, and they'd blow smoke in each other's face.

  Chris Matthews

  Blow, Actors, Aphrodisiac

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Assuming that all bad girls smoke. I don't think so. I've been around a lot of bad girls who don't smoke, you know, so I think it's easy to put a cigarette into, you know, into anyone's hands and say, well that makes them a bad boy or a bad girl. There are many more creative ways from a writerly point of view to do that.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Girl, Boys, Thinking

  Interview with Dominic Bellone, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• Cigarettes are pretty much my worst vice, and I even stopped smoking for 20 years. I spend most of my free time with my family and working on art.

  David Lynch

  Art, Years, Smoking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Now some people when they sit down to write and nothing special comes, no good ideas, are so frightened that they drink a lot of strong coffee to hurry them up, or smoke packages of cigarettes, or take drugs or get drunk. They do not know that ideas come slowly, and that the more clear, tranquil and unstimulated you are, the slower the ideas come, but the better they are.

  Brenda Ueland

  Strong, Coffee, Writing

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, I can see two tiny pictures of myself And there's one in each of your eyes. And they're doin' everything I do. Every time I light a cigarette, they light up theirs. I take a drink and I look in and they're drinkin' too. It's drivin' me crazy. It's drivin' me nuts.

  Laurie Anderson

  Crazy, Eye, Light

  "Laurie Anderson". Book by RoseLee Goldberg and Laurie Anderson, 2000.

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• When it's all over and the on the air signs go off there isn't a more lost feeling in the world. The wonderful, exciting, even glamorous, studio is now just a room dirty with coffee cartons and cigarette butts.

  Gertrude Berg

  Coffee, Dirty, Air

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• ... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.

  Margaret Halsey

  Giving Up, Self, Alcohol

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• I cuss like a sailor; I smoked cigarettes for many years but quit and have never looked back; also, I ride a motorcycle... in Los Angeles... so there ya go.

  Keith Coogan

  Years, Motorcycle, Sailor

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• Everyone was talking about the gap between my teeth, my monocle, the fancy waistcoats I wore and the seven-inch cigarette holders I used

  Terry-Thomas

  Talking, Teeth, Fancy

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• I used to smoke cigarettes, smoke dope, do smack, every f - - thing. First, I couldn't function without it. Then I couldn't do anything with or without it. Then I thought, "This is the end of the line for my fun days."

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Fun, Dope, Cigarette Smoke

  Source: www.nola.com

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• Several of my young acquaintances are in their graves who gave promise of making happy and useful citizens and there is no question whatever that cigarettes alone were the cause of their destruction. No boy living would commence the use of cigarettes if he knew what a useless, soulless, worthless thing they would make of him.

  Luther Burbank

  Knowledge, Science, Boys

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• From the very beginning I started with a beer and a cigarette because I couldn't figure out what to do with my hands. So usually I have a beer and cigarette and that's what I was doing with my hands because that looked natural and felt good.

  Ron White

  Beer, Hands, Natural

  Source: easterncarolinastyle.com

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• When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.

  Peter Coyote

  College, Sweaters, Black

  "Bay Area theater leaders on their inspirations" by Robert Hurwitt, www.sfgate.com. December 15, 2013.

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• There is no conclusive proof that nicotine's addictive... And the same thing with cigarettes causing emphysema, lung cancer, heart disease.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Cancer, Heart, Disease

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• Some are addicted to cigarettes, some, God forbid, to drugs, and some become addicted to money. They say that the worst addiction is to power. I have never felt that. I have never been addicted to anything

  Vladimir Putin

  Addiction, Drug, Worst

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• I began my addiction when I was 12 years old. By the time 40, 45 years later, when it, you know, it threatened my life and maimed me in terms of my voice, I was so addicted that I was smoking four packs of cigarettes a day.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Years, Voice, Addiction

  Transcript to Oct. 9 at Cleveland State University, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• I quit smoking cigarettes and with the $70 a month I am saving not smoking cigarettes I'm smoking $700 worth of cigars.

  Ron White

  Smoking, Months, Saving

  Source: easterncarolinastyle.com

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