Oliver Stone Quotes
But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.
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The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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The oceans produce up to 70 percent of our oxygen, they shape our climate, and they support an American oceans economy larger than our nation's entire agriculture sector.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.
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It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.
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Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.
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I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.
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I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.
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I feel such a sense of empowerment being a mom. But I do wonder: How do they/we do it all?
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In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown.
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My style advice to other girls is to be experimental but always have a 'home base' and stick with your comfort style.
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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
