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I love the act of writing. I like the quiet, internal aspect of it. If I lost track of that, I couldn't direct the same way. I couldn't be a director for-hire it's just not my nature.

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Oliver Stone
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: September 15
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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writing = ass + chair
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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Franklin Roosevelt saw the world as a possible alliance, with the UN involved, of course, where we would never have these kinds of wars again. And he was equally opposed to the British Empire as he was against the Communist Russians.
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I wish that George W. Bush had gone to Vietnam, because he would have seen history in a different light. He would've experienced it in a different light because I don't think he understood the nature of war.
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Conspiracy nut, leftist, madman. These are terms of dismissal so you don't have to listen to the argument. It would be healthier and more fun to hear what someone has to say.
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One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
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Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind. We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over. We're all divided, but some of us have children, and we are invested in the future and would like to see good things happen.
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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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What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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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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