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I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.
Steven Spielberg
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Steven Spielberg
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 18
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Steven Allan Spielberg
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From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.
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In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.
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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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I'm not really interested in making money.
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I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.
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My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.
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Desperate times require desperate measures. What Lincoln and the Lobbyist for the Amendment and the Manager of the Amendment and himself, what they did to get this passed was not illegal. It was murky, but what they did was noble and grand. How they went about it was somewhat murky. Nothing they did was really illegal.
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One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.
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