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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God wills in man only that which is good, in the kingdom of his grace; where the free will yields itself up into the grace, there God wills that which is good in the will, through the grace.
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I'm just portraying this guy.
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An effective found footage movie is much harder to make than an effective traditionally shot movie. A crappy one is much easier to make because you take your camera, and you shoot the scene, and you're done. But to make it effective, they're actually much trickier.
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I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's when I realized that I could actually go away.
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I'm astounded by people who can listen to music when they write. I can only assume that they have multi-track brains, while mine is decidedly single.
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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.
