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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The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
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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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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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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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All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications.
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I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.
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When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.
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I keep on calling them records because they will always be records to me.
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Whenever you do a film, it's always like a little miracle. So many people getting together trying to do something so that the audience can be entertained.
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More money has been lost trying to imitate 'Rocky' than 'Rocky' has made.
