Steven Spielberg Quotes

It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me.

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• Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Great
  • Country
  • Back

• I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Joy
  • Winning
  • Feel

• When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• No decent career was ever founded on a public.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Career
  • Ever
  • Decent

• I believe women are the glue of everything.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Believe
  • Women
  • I Believe

• To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Luck
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  • Skill

• I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Good
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  • Action

• Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Love
  • Today

• Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Political
  • Consequences

• The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Experience
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• The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Children
  • Death
  • Opportunity

• I'm no stranger to joining a show in the third season. I joined 'Lost Girl' at the same stage, and that was a wonderful experience.

  

  Rachel Skarsten
  • Experience
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• All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Never
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• I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
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  • You
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• I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.

  

  Magic Johnson
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• I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • Like
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• We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.

  

  Carl Honore
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• It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.

  

  Chief Joseph
  • People
  • Up
  • Heart

• Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• Everybody has a say, everybody has a voice, because everyone that comes to the House had about 750,000 people they're representing . And you want those voices heard.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • People
  • House

• I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.

  

  Stu Jackson
  • Teaching
  • Coaching
  • Get Back

• I'm not prepared to have someone tell me there is only one view of what Europe is. Europe isn't owned by any of them, Europe is owned by all of us.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Views
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• It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me.

  

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