George Stevens Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
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Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.
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I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.
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It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
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I always say the greats just get better.
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My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
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To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.
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When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.
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Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
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I blog because I have something to say.
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If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"
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I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
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When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.
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People are going to say what they want to say.
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If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.
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I know that a lot of people love to say that polls are wrong or don't matter, and from time to time they are - it depends on who they are polling.
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Number of empty Ben & Jerry's containers: 3 - two mint chocolate cookie, one plain vanilla. (Who buys plain vanilla ice cream from Ben & Jerry's, anyway? Is there a greater waste?)
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All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
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I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.
