10 Quotes & Sayings By Jerome Lawrence

Jerome Lawrence was an American playwright, novelist, screenwriter and film director. He was born in New York City in 1914, but a stock market crash in 1929 forced the family to move to Flint, Michigan. Lawrence graduated from Eastern Michigan University in 1935 and moved to California in 1936. He began writing plays while attending the University of Southern California in Los Angeles Read more

He authored several novels including The Lady Says No (1943) and The Star Spangled Girl (1951). In 1946, he wrote the screenplay for Mildred Pierce, starring Joan Crawford and John Garfield. In addition to his screenplays and novels, Lawrence wrote a series of mystery stories featuring his creation Perry Mason.

Time and space are awash here.
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Time and space are awash here. Jerome Lawrence
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Buy a Bible! Your guide to eternal life! Jerome Lawrence
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When you loose your power to laugh, you loose your power to think straight. Jerome Lawrence
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A giant once lived in that body. But Matt Brady got lost. Because he was looking for God too high up and too far away. Jerome Lawrence
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He weighs the volume in his hand; this one has been the center of the whirlwind. Then DRUMMOND notices the Bible on the JUDGE's bench. He picks up the Bible in his other hand; he looks from one volume to the other, balancing them thoughtfully, as if his hands were scales. He half-smiles, half-shrugs. Then DRUMMOND slaps the two books together and jams them in his brief case, side by side. Slowly, he climbs to the street level and crosses the empty square. Jerome Lawrence
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Why? Because I refuse to erase a man's lifetime? I tell you Brady had the same right as Cates: the right to be wrong! Jerome Lawrence
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We must look hopeful. Jerome Lawrence
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You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us. Jerome Lawrence
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It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do. Jerome Lawrence