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Oliver Stone
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: September 15
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William Oliver Stone
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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I don't think most people in the US realize how important WikiLeaks is and why Julian's case needs support.
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Each actor requires a different language.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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I'm trying to understand my life. The one that I've experienced.
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Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly.
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You don't always have to have an e-book. You can have a real book. I'd like to see the old way maintain.
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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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After World War II the Republicans - the Wall Street crowd - were very worried about a depression coming back. They hated Franklin Roosevelt in that crowd, my father among them. And there was a great fear in '46 that we'd fall back into the pits. And they always wanted to break up the Roosevelt legislation.
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Kennedy was significantly different than Eisenhower before him, and different from Johnson after him. So those three years were the beginning of a détente with the Soviet Union, a new feeling for peace, a seeking out of a new ally with the Soviet Union - the end of the Cold War, as Kennedy called it in his American University speech.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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I do have a side as a citizen, and I've always expressed it, and that's where I've gotten into misunderstandings, because some people see me as a leftist nut or whatever. A conspiracy nut. All that stuff. These are definitions that don't really apply to a dramatist, because a dramatist is working from empathy.
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[When making movies I] set out to be authentic to [myself] and to put it down the way [I] feel it and know it and interpret it. And then others sometimes key into it and get it.
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People should really horde their Blu-rays like old comic books and baseball cards. Because they're really beautiful, and will be worth something if you like movies as I do.
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My home in Hollywood is not a home. I do a film here, a film there, as they want it. I don't have a relationship. Like, Warner Bros. has a great relationship with Clint Eastwood and takes care of him.
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There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today.
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A life like Nixon's is filled with shame and filled with glory. He loved to quote Teddy Roosevelt: He was a man sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but he was a man. I love that line.
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I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
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