Steven Spielberg Quotes
I really trust the authenticity of real people and my job is to get them to be themselves in front of the camera. Often what happens is, you'll get a newcomer in front of the camera and they'll freeze up or they imitate actors or other performances that they've admired and so they stop becoming themselves. And so my job as the director is just to always return them to what I first saw in them, which was simply an uncensored human being.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your friends invite you to, and you meet this person, and your life is turned upside down, and the next day you can't stop thinking about them. That's violent. Hopefully, it's for the better, but it's a violent thing.
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Curvy is something to be proud of.
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My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.
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Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.
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I don't want to be an actor, but why not take these opportunities when they come to you? I'm not killing myself auditioning, chasing that dream.
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It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.
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I'm losing Savanna.That's good. No one should own someone else.
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In a way, he lost some of himself, some of his knack, and therefore some of the choices he might have had in life. But in losing those, he gained so much more freedom, so much more power, that he was clear winner in the bargain.
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One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.
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A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
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I'm a big fan, and I like the idea of fighting Roy Jones Jr.
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No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
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This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.
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I usually do films, and you do two months and then forget about it.
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I really trust the authenticity of real people and my job is to get them to be themselves in front of the camera. Often what happens is, you'll get a newcomer in front of the camera and they'll freeze up or they imitate actors or other performances that they've admired and so they stop becoming themselves. And so my job as the director is just to always return them to what I first saw in them, which was simply an uncensored human being.
