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.
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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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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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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 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 love Christopher Bailey and Burberry, Mulberry for bags, and Hudson for jeans.
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You can't be against bullying without actually doing something about it.
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One way or another, Gaza's residents must live in peace with Israel.
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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
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Taiwan must find its own way. We have been emphasizing too much the manufacturing business. We have to become more high-tech, more innovative, and provide more value. We can't always insist on the value of low-cost production. We have to invest more in R&D to get high-value business.
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Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.
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I do love doing action, but if I can balance the scale by doing other kinds of films that satisfy my creative ambitions, that feels really important.
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Marathons are extraordinarily difficult, but if you've got the training under your belt, and if you can run smart, the races take care of themselves. When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel.
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I often have the feeling that acting is really not difficult, because all I do is I just listen. I just listen. I just listen to what there is. And if there's nothing, then I listen to nothing. If there's a chair, and it's empty, I listen to an empty chair, and I will respond to it.
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Death by evaporation. May the saltwater wind that gets shot out of a barreling wave blow me away like an old puffy dandelion into the sky.
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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.
