Steven Spielberg Quotes
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
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If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
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Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.
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Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
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One thing however, Nat did for him. He taught him carpentry. He learned to distinguish between the different kinds of wood, to love them and understand their ways. Realizing that the boy had great skill with his hands Nat gave him a few tools for his own and taught him wood carving.... First the books and then the wood. Each was a milestone for him on the way through.
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I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.
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The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence.
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Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.
