Steven Zaillian (Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian) Quotes
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Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.
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And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.
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For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me.
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The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing.
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Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
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Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.
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I hate jet lag, but I love, love, love, love traveling - to meet new people, to try different foods because I'm a big foodie. I love food, even though people think models don't eat. We do eat.
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The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.
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I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And I really enjoy writing - especially my political commentary.
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My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me about the people at the paper and the articles she wrote. She had the best memory of anyone I know, and she could really tell a tale.
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People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time.
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You know what, it's a time honored tradition in movies in America that if you kill enough people in your 30s and 40s and 50s that by the time you get into your 60s you become loveable.
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Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.
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I've been working almost 20 years, and I think I've worked with maybe one black director of photography in that time. Maybe two women directors or DPs. Maybe. And I've done a lot of TV. That's a lot of people I've worked with.
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We have a certain group of people in this country that seem to want to lock up our national treasures, our national parks, and cherished places and keep the public from enjoying them.
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There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves.
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There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.
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I learned years ago that the more honest you are about anything you're doing in life, you can grow and learn from your mistakes.
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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I'm not one of those people who writes long soliloquies.
