Steven Spielberg Quotes
The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
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I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
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I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.
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I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
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The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
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A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.
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I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.
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There is no part of the world where corruption is absolutely eliminated.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.
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That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.
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We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
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This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.
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The civil service are risk averse.
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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
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A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.
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The problem is not that public schools do not work well, but rather that they do. The first goal and primary function of schools is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we normally label state indoctrination.
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First of all I think of puppets as sculpture. They are sculpture that moves. You could label it any way you want, but for me it always starts in my mind as a sculpture.
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The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
