Steven Spielberg Quotes
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.
Quotes to Explore
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
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I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
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There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
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To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
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It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.
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I watch a lot of football.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
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I think humans are fascinating in general. We're so weird. We do so many quirky things, and we don't even know it. There's just so many layers upon layers of nuances in everything we do, and the most fun part as an actor is trying to get into all those nuances, whether they're conscious or unconscious.
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Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.
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I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.
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As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types and features, which is healthy, and we should accept that.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse. The art world is filled with vibrancy.
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I always wanted to play with people's hair. I was really into 'The Golden Girls' and how big their hair was. I always had Barbies and Ken dolls, whose hair I wanted to play with and was always styling. I was very lucky - I never had to wonder what I was passionate about. I've always known that I'm really, really passionate about grooming.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
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It is an incredible thing to see how many crazy things get thrown out that people then often write commentaries about how happy they are or how disappointed they are about something that's completely false. But, it's a lot of noise, frankly.
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Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense. He cannot even be nourished by Art. Like Ephraim, he feeds upon the East wind, which has no boundaries.
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The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.
