Oliver Stone Quotes
I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
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After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.
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As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.
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I try to write cinematically. Let me define what I mean by that. First of all, I try to write in a visual way so that the reader can watch a movie in their head. And it keeps moving. I try to structure the stories like a screenplay may be structured.
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When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind - at least that part of it that we can reach - of the ruins of past thinking, before building our palace of dharma which will one day reach the sky.
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That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.
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I hate singers, a miserable crew who think that music exists only in their own throats.
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I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
