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Budd Schulberg Biography

Budd Schulberg (March 27, 1914 – August 5, 2009) was an American screenwriter, television producer, novelist and sports writer. He was known for his 1941 novel, What Makes Sammy Run?, his 1947 novel The Harder They Fall, his 1954 Academy Award-winning screenplay for On the Waterfront, and his 1957 screenplay for A Face in the Crowd.

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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.

Fear, Mind, People, Unless, Words, Wrinkling

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

Class, Contender, Instead, Palookaville, Tickets, Way

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.

Anymore, Comfort, Dignity, Fighter, Fighters, Old

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.

Brother, Cushy, Jobs, Love, Money, Wrong

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

Conscience, Drive, Nuts, Stuff, The Waterfront

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.

Felt, Listening, Nobodys, Novelists, Used

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

Community, Everyone, Interconnection, Part

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

Brakes, Car, Conscience, Cynical, Driving, Inspirational

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

Dozen, Dumped, Everybody, Fighting, Way

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.

Ancient, Expired, Expression, Goes On, Life, Worse

You can't eat your friends and have them too

Eat, Friends, Friendship, Funny

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going

Conform, Conformity, Expected, Hit, Tough

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.

Boxing, Game, Games, Prizefight, Sports, Thinking

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

Hollywood, Silence, Way

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

Country, Cricket, Like, Nervous

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

Admire, Away, Far Away, Papa, Plan

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

Boxing, Boxing Champions, Hate, Love

I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.

Consistent, Littles, Maybe, People, Stop, Suppose