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There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.

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Steven Spielberg
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 18
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Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.
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All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.
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He never gave up. And he does that for us
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The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.
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It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me.
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This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.
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And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.
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My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating I didn't know what he wanted to do. He wouldn't tell me, and he put me in the car and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky.
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She wanted to go over and hug his tears away, but she was too frightened.
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I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.
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I quit college so fast I didn't even clean out my locker.
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There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.
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I get very, very anxious on the set. I have a thousand ideas and I don't censor myself. I wind up cutting some of them out in the editing room... I shoot [needless footage] and then don't use later on in the process.
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You look at war as something that is putting your best friend in jeopardy. You are responsible for the person in front of you and the person behind you, and the person to the left of you and the person to the right of you.
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