George Stevens Quotes
For me it's absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can't think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than the very start.
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Could you imagine being from Siberia? Like, a small part of Russia, where it's like, 'When was the last time Russia was having a super big international pop star in the U.S.?' I don't know, but I can name a few from Sweden. I think that gives us a lot of confidence in being pop stars because we're like, 'Oh, we actually can. We know we can.'
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.
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I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
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I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.
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There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.
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I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.
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Respect the burden.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'
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I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.
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Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
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Circumstances have rarely favored great men. A lowly beginning is no bar to a great career. The boy who works his way through college may have a hard time of it, but he will learn how to work his way in life, and will usually take higher rank in school and in after life than his classmate who is the son of a millionaire.
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I haven't thought about writing so much as potentially producing and finding my own projects to get into production. I want to be able to buy the rights to a story that I have read or a book that I have read.
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My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.
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Anytime there was an award show, it was a ritual where me and my mom would sit around and watch with my friends. We would make desserts and buy chips and popcorn and see what our favorite performances of the night were.
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Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.
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All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All shall come forth at His bidding. Those who would not move when they heard the church-going bell, shall obey the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God.
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The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.
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I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.
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Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.
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For me it's absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can't think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than the very start.
