Steven Spielberg Quotes
I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
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When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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Some people get very confused about my game. They think it's better if the court is slow, because I have a good defence. But the faster it is, the better for me. My spin is more painful for my opponents, my aggressive game works better.
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That's a real problem when people bring exotics into their homes. Sometimes it's by accident, but sometimes it's on purpose.
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And I feel that filmmakers ought to be careful with the use of 3D. Because if you look back over the decades, you see that 3D has come and gone for I don't know how many years now.
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Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.
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One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive.
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I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.
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The Israeli media are very important to me. I've been part of them and they a part of me all my adult life.
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Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I'm a person - I'm a believer that everything happens for a reason.
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The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
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There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can't be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they're gay. These are humanitarian issues. At the end of the day, all you want is for people to be happy in the pursuit of life, love and liberty.
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The construction of an airplane is simple compared with the evolutionary achievement of a bird. If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
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One of the reasons that our colleges have gotten so expensive is because of tenure.
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Well, that kind of puts a damper on even a Yankee win.
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She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt...
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I love Tinkle, it's really the most fun I've had in years.
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The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
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I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
