Steven Spielberg Quotes
And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.
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I have a very short attention span.
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.
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My philosophy is to not be scared of anyone. If I play well, great; if I don't, I learn from the match and move on.
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Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.
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The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.
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Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.
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The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.
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That's the biggest shame there is, that L.A. doesn't have a team. I was a big fan of the L.A. Rams, and when they left, I lost interest. Then there was the Raiders, and they left. How they can't have a football team in the biggest market in the world is beyond me.
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Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture.
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There are still people, obviously, who are stopping you and want a selfie because they need to justify their own lives by being in close proximity to a celebrity... but those are minor with me. I'm not a major celebrity.
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Accents influence a performance. If you look at Stanislavski, he says work from the in to the out, and I probably overall work the other way. I find an accent and a mood, and that influences the character massively.
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All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?
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There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.
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That's one of the things I'm most proud of is the character of the guys on this roster. They're anxious to step up and play for their country.
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.
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And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.
