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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.

Oliver Stone

The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Country Greek People Playwright
Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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American Interviews Mona Lisa Politics
I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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Believe Country Leader Lightning People
I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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Generation People Thinking
We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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Challenges Enormous Fronts
I feel like I am what I am.
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Individual Like
People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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Clean Dirty People
[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was. We weren’t right to do that – I don’t think he did have that consciousness. But we did it for movie reasons – to create empathy.
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Craft Empathy Thinking
Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. … I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.
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Done Scary Way
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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Envy Jealousy Underestimate
I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.
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Differences Marijuana Weed
We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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Breaths Knows Mind
We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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Destruction Force Praying
Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.
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Different Original Stories Style
From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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Helping Moments Running
What I’ve experienced, I’m trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
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Narrative Suppose Trying

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