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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You cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.
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At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: ‘I have to go to work – as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for – the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?’ (Hays translation)
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Sam believes now that people repeatedly collide with each other swiftly, brutally – not to produce children but to shatter their sense of self, and be thrust into a creative space beyond reason, where anything can happen. Only through the destruction of psychological borders is freedom possible.
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There's this sort of cloud that hangs where people are like: 'How long can you keep the heat of 'Homeland' going?' People have short memories is the truth, and Hollywood loves the new and shiny.
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I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.
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I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.
