Steven Zaillian (Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian) Quotes
People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles... it's a small percentage.
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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I've had every hair style imaginable.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
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I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.
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In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.
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Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.
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I am not helpless. Any timid minister will not go forward... I have come here to strive hard for the sake of the country, to work for the country. If anybody thinks that decision making process in the oil sector will be prevented, they are totally wrong.
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.
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I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.
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I have had to learn about saying no.
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The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.
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Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end.
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I took up an offer for me to lose 30 pounds in 30 days. It worked. I lost 30 days!
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I'll never put my memoirs in print.
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Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.
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I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing the work of critics and philosophers that I doubt they'd read or understood.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of an established church.
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We need to have our conservative version of what health care looks like, and that will include a repeal of Obamacare.
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People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles... it's a small percentage.
