Ted Kotcheff Quotes
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The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
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I would love to be a role model.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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I am a big Vespa enthusiast, and I enjoy the state park aspect of California. It's awfully nice to ride my little scooter through the mountains and then wind up at the ocean.
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I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.
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My prayers are being answered for my career. These are prayers I've been praying for as a kid.
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How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?
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The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.
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I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.
