Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
GEORGE LUCASPeople who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.
More George Lucas Quotes
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Don’t avoid the cliches – they are cliches because they work!
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Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.
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Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood.
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Any society begins by realizing that together, by helping each other, you can survive better than if you fight each other and compete with each other.
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The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
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My success wasn’t based on how I could push down everybody that was around me. My success was based on how much I could push everybody up.
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Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
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Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil… The theme came from stories and ideas that have been around for thousands of years.
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You need peers; you need people who are at the same level you are. You never know in life when you’re going to need help, and you never know who you’re going to need it from.
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If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.
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Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.
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The one way the world hasn’t changed: teaching is still the most important job.
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All democracies turn into dictatorships – but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it’s Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea.
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Success is when you try to achieve your inward vision externally and have it come off the way you see it. Then YOU feel successful about it; that’s how success is measured.
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But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences – is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.
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