David Zucker Quotes
I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.
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I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.
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I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.
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I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
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A good impression is sort of a juxtaposition of disparate elements.
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Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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I was lucky enough to work a little bit with Steven Spielberg.
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The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.
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I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.
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It's hard to say things without coming off in a certain way, but at a young age, I felt very driven. All I ever wanted to be is a soldier of cinema.
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It's important to have a really clear strategy so when you are in business, you only have to make micro-strategy changes.
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I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.
