Ed Koch Quotes
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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When you buy me, you are buying a Ferrari. If you drive a Ferrari, you put premium petrol in the tank, you hit the motorway, and you step on the gas.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designed to meet their extra needs; across country lines, the lives of marginalized kids look far more similar than they do different.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.
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I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'
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I'm from Alabama and I have morals and I have class. That's my personality.
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Don't underestimate Laura Antonelli. She's burning to do well. And then she has an extraordinary face, even without make-up. It's not with her that I'd discuss literature. I speak only of the film 'L'Innocente,' and what she does she does well.
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What might the world look like if we took some chances on the film-makers we might be afraid of?
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It's my only freedom, music, and I'm not going to give it up to anyone else.
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We need to care enough to connect, to put ourselves at emotional risk and play one note worth hearing.
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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
