George Stevens Quotes

Three takes. You're either going to get it, or you're not going to get it. There's no use persisting; it just had to work that way.

George Stevens

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 18, 1904 - March 8, 1975

Topics

WorkYouThreeWayGoingGet

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

John C. Hawkes

WaterOceanFishYouJustLike

I once ran away from home because I was upset with my parents! I didn't get farther than a few feet into the woods, where I hid behind a tree. Sometimes you feel like you should just go out and rebel, and then you realize it's not the right thing to do. You've got to stay true to your family.

Max Schneider

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Like every other self-respecting academic, I'm distrustful of self-help books.

Amitava Kumar

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I can't even remember when the Seventies was.

Robbie Keane

RememberSeventiesEvenRemember When

Playing in the Premier League, in front of such crowds and on such perfect pitches, is amazing. I am so lucky.

Riyad Mahrez

I AmAmazingPerfectLuckyPlaying

When I was 11 years old, I thought, 'All I really wanna be able to do is my own comic book,' and I'm doing it. I don't have any other real ambitions. I have nothing to conquer at all.

Chris Ware

BookThoughtConquerDoingNothing

Hip-hop, at its best, is disruptive.

Arca

BestHip-HopDisruptive

Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going.

Austan Goolsbee

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As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like.

Protagoras

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In the end, a lifeform is always a hybrid, a being endowed with some X-power such as being able to breathe for a few seconds out of water. That's how evolution works. Spectrally. We are all mermaids.

Timothy Morton

WaterEndEvolutionBreatheOut

For me, it's life or death doing plays: there's this perfectionist thing about me that it has to be brilliant - anything less than that is a failure.

Marianne Elliott

LifeFailureDeathMeDoingThan

As an artist, you want to stretch. That's the only way you're going to grow. If I stay inside my comfort zone, do roles that I've done before, then I'm never going to get better as an actress.

Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Comfort ZoneGrowBetterYouArtist

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