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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I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
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It's often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It's best to leave the audience wanting more.
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I love breaking the fourth wall, and being given permission to play with the audience!
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one.
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I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience.
