Steven Spielberg Quotes
'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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I did a rendition of 'Billie Jean' which is on my Soundcloud. I put it on Twitter, and it got about 3000 hits that day.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.
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Everybody knows the story of The Smiths. You can still go and see Morrissey.
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Due to the reliance on the old heavy industries in many parts of the country, it makes perfect sense that we need to spend more money per head of population on welfare support in Scotland.
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I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?
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Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you don't get fed.
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If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
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I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
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The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.
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The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
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I am the hero of Africa.
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Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.
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Kelly, Kelly, Kelly. I love your voice man, you give me chills... Brilliant.
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The law doesn't create a right.
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I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.
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The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.
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Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.
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It's important for me to work with a strong director because I know I can go to some really deep places, I just need direction on how to get there.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.
