Stephen LaBerge Quotes
Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams.
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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New York City is my favorite city in the world.
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I started out doing musicals.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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I don't like to play the victim.
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I've never really identified with the way a typical alpha male views women. It's always an awkward forum for me to hang out with another guy and talk about girls, because I can't really find a way to fit in.
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Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
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I try to be athletic.
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The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
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...we explained simply what contraception was; that abortion was the wrong way - no matter how early it was performed it was taking a life; that contraception was the better way, the safer way - it took a little time, a little trouble, but was well worth while in the long run, because life had not yet begun.
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I think Mr. Obama is a disaster for business and a disaster for the United States. Not that Mr. Romney would be much better, but the Republicans understand the problem of excessive debt better than Mr. Obama, who basically doesn't care about piling up debt.
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Like a lot of people my age, I grew up on Amblin movies. They're a part of who I am as a filmmaker and, arguably, as a person.
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When you're on court, you just want to win. You're a competitor.
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I'm good at cold reading; I've made a living doing this, and most of the time I do audition, but it's very tough. It's a very uncomfortable, awkward process. You never get used to it, really.
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When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film - a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it.
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I was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go right.
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He fouled out in the fourth quarter, and that's when I really started getting points. He was no more at fault than anyone.
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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
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Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.
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Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams.
