What the hell is nostalgia doing in a science-fiction film? With the whole universe and all the future to play in, Lucas took his marvelous toys and crawled under the fringed cloth on the parlor table, back into a nice safe hide hole, along with Flash Gordon and the Cowardly Lion and Luke Skywalker and the Flying Aces and the Hitler Jugend. If there's a message there, I don't think I want to hear it.
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So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
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Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.
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Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.
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One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
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David: All the reporters are on the bus. Lucas: Okay, start the bus then. And drive them over a cliff.
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Lucas: You're the Democratic nominee for Senator. John McKay: You make that sound like a death sentence.
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I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today.
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I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
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The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.
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There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
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But a year before that, I was starting to drink beer on the set of the film Lucas (1986).
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Use the Force, Luke. Let go, Luke. Luke, trust me.
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In my experience, there is no such thing as 'luck.'
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Bill McKay: I thought the point was to say what I wanted. Lucas: Well, it is. But in the right way, and at the right time.
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I was very lucky that we were able to create something that stimulated the imagination of young people,
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Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.
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Customers enjoy using the legal (Web) sites. They're going to do it if they can get (music) on their own terms.
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We've got to protect our young men and women and we've got to win that, whatever the cost.
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