The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit. - Lincoln Steffens

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An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.

Lincoln Steffens

The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.

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My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.

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We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

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My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.

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The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

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