Steven Spielberg Quotes
You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.
Quotes to Explore
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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The P2P marketplace extends into other markets where individuals are monetizing underutilized assets. Lodging is one example. Instead of finding a hotel room, in the sharing economy you can rent a spare room from a local resident.
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Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.
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For each project I do, I try to surprise myself, do the unexpected, and change my own status quo. From the One Laptop Per Child, the Herman Miller Sayl, or the latest Movado watch collection, there is always an insecurity about being able to do something important. I think each of those projects makes me feel like we have progressed.
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Hi and Merry Christmas. I’m honored to have a chance to speak with you and your family this year. Recently we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide system of mass surveillance watching everything we do. Great Britain’s George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information.
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Because I really love tax, tax topics actually feature quite a lot in my fiction of various lengths. I once wrote a science fiction short story centered around the idea of an alien tax code, and the idea that you can understand a society by parsing its tax code.
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Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.
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Actually, I loved Chucky. It's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen.
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'Rent-a-tile' means when you go to a dance hall, some people take the middle of the dance floor and do their thing.
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I will give my life to whoever in need, to any dear friend of mine.
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We're making far too big a deal out of our sexual preferences. It's just another form of narcissism, and I think it can be a big problem and a tremendous obstacle.
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I'm still very much a kid inside myself.
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My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us.
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Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play.
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I'm curious what the acting world is like; I'm so foreign to it that I'd be curious to see what that's all about.
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I use a little brush only for really small details. Over the years, I've started to use a much larger brush.
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Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human.
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Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
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Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change.
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You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.
