George Stevens Quotes
I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.
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I'm definitely capable of just enjoying riding my bike these days.
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When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
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When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence mechanism.
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Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it.
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To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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It doesn’t matter how strong or capable you are; if you don’t have a big heart, you will not succeed.
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As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.
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A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.
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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
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When we are no longer capable of love, we are no longer alive.
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I used to feel like I was waiting for someone to discover me, to 'produce' me, like Lana Turner at the drugstore. Utlimately I realized that the person I was waiting for was myself. If we wait for the world's permission to shine, we will never receive it.
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...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.
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If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover what your lifework is, work in which you can do most good, in which you can be happiest. Be unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right.
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Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.
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When girls can be honest with each other, they can make mistakes on their own terms and discover through experience - and not through knee-jerk adult intervention - what a healthy friendship should look like.
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Sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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We had 62,000 tickets in Madrid [for the Champions League final] and 980,000 requests. If we would play for example in Wembley we would have 30,000 more.
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I think there is an immense shortage of Christian charity among so-called Christians.
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I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.
