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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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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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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The American political scientist Francis Fukuyama has argued that liberal democracies, with their political freedom and economic success, have three important pillars: a strong government, the rule of law, and democratic accountability. I would add a fourth: free markets.
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I am fully a feminist in this modern definition of the term. It's innate in my work because that's just who I am.
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I still sleep soundly every night. I'm not worried about everything people say.
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We'll always need energy. We need to communicate, too, but we're not stuck with hand gestures and smoke signals. There are better ways to power our future than by digging fossil fuel from the ground and setting it on fire.
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Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.
