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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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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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 would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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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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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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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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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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Respect the burden.
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I'm not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I'm recognized - that would be absolute misery.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day.
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If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that's genetically modified. They might decide they love it. But give us a choice.
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The main way that being adopted has shaped my songwriting is that I was asked at an early age to consider the circumstances that led to my life, and in a way, I was introduced to how fragile and unlikely life is from the beginning.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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So many people don't realise you need to be on a certain level of Maslow's hierarchy to have a dream: you have to have food and be safe from danger, all these things my parents didn't have at the get go, so I, from the very beginning, believe I have been living for multiple generations, for my parents and grandparents.
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As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
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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.
