David Zucker Quotes
We're producing a movie now, 'The Onion' Movie, and it's very difficult for me to be on the set. If I'm not right in the trenches, it's very difficult for me to watch another director, because I'm not involved and it's not exciting.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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I hate the domestic life.
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They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.
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A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover.
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I was 16 when I got admission in Hans Raj College. I completed school when I was 16, so everyone in my class - Zoology Honours batch 92 - was 18, and I was often treated like a kid.
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We'd do better to follow the admonition of Jesus about loving our neighbours. People in the U.S. are capable of forgiveness and willing to see one another's point of view, but when matters become politicised, we're less able to do that.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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We're producing a movie now, 'The Onion' Movie, and it's very difficult for me to be on the set. If I'm not right in the trenches, it's very difficult for me to watch another director, because I'm not involved and it's not exciting.
