George Stevens Quotes
It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man.
Quotes to Explore
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
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I read a lot of true crime growing up – 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
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You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
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Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.
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I remember speaking to a sheik who came back into the political system in late 2008, laid down his arms. His troops became part of the Sons of Iraq, the so-called Sunni Awakening.
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
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But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
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I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.
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Nature is a divine art; it cannot be the artist. It is a dominical book and cannot be the scribe. It is an embroidery and cannot be the embroiderer. It is a register and cannot be the accountant. It is the law and cannot be the power.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others' bare.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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I have to hear more live instrumentation, more band and more funk, and I don't hear enough of it, so I created it myself.
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It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man.
