Irwin Winkler Quotes
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Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.
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My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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Religion is induced insanity.
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I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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Making music is fantastic.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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It is never what a poem says that matters, but what it is.
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Sometimes audiences want to see what we're doing to their world. It's our obligation sometimes to reflect it.
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People are looking for a leader independent of powerful, wealthy special interests that always push to the front of the line.
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No pharmaceutical company is making money by selling biological knowledge - they make money by selling chemicals. So getting as much of that knowledge as possible into the efficiency of the Web-commerce world is going to make it faster to find those chemicals.
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More money has been lost trying to imitate 'Rocky' than 'Rocky' has made.
