Steven Spielberg Quotes
I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.
Quotes to Explore
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
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I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
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How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!
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Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.
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Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
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People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.
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Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.
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I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to.
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I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations.
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There's always a fine line between being too focused and missing opportunities, or being too wide and taking on too many.
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I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.
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It seems like, yeah, of course - I always think my work is important, or I wouldn't risk my life for it.
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Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.
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I have an issue with the commercial aspect of moviemaking: I don't see why a movie can't make a lot of money and also be good.
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In the 1940s, I was doing something called the Equity Library Theater in New York, when a movie company came to see the play I was in and offered me a contract. But the deal was, my nose was too big and they wanted me to have surgery. My jaw was crooked, and I'd have to have that fixed, too. And they didn't like my name; it was too common.
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I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.
