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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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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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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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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I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.
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Counterterrorism analysts have known for years that al Qaeda prepares for attacks with elaborate 'targeting packages' of photographs and notes.
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All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.
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I feel like woman was brought to this world to have family and kids.
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I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packed lunches so healthful that they had no takers in the grand swap-fest of the lunchroom.
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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
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When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.
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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man.
