Steven Spielberg Quotes
My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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I don't do office work at home.
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How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.
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At this period of his existence, meat and blood, entrails, and all that had ever lived and breathed disgusted him as food, for an animal dies in pain just as man does, and it repelled him to be digesting death's agony.
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I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.
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In my professional life I do not have to like everyone, but when I feel negative energy with someone I try and avoid that person.
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Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.
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Hallo, Eeyore." "Same to you, Pooh Bear, and twice on Thursdays," said Eeyore gloomily. Before Pooh could say: 'Why Thursdays?' Christopher Robin began to explain the sad story of Eeyore's lost house.
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'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.
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My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.
