Steven Spielberg Quotes
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Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression that's possible with the instrument.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.
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Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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When I left the Giants in 2014, my comments were emotional, insensitive, and misguided, and I truly regret and apologize for my actions. I am committed to working hard to contributing to the success of the Giants.
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Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
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I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.
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I'm yet to attack French cooking, you know, where it's intense, following recipes and stuff. I'm more of a 'make it up' kind of thing.
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You try to go where the great scripts are, if you can, or you go where the not great scripts are, because that's what's being offered to you.
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To look in the eyes of audiences and see the kind of naughty glee that they got with being on the inside, the audience becomes your co-conspirators.
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I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people's participation and young faces in the audience.
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I am a teacher at heart. My goal is to inspire and energize audiences with ideas and possibilities that will challenge them to expand their perceptions of teaching and learning and dare to consider our professional future with optimism and excitement.
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If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.
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I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience.
