Ted Kotcheff Quotes
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We don't really watch basketball in Australia.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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Interior design is a business of trust.
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I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.
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I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I've said this before, but I've always felt more comfortable playing the guy who thinks he's the hot shot or thinks he's the greatest and is so far from it, you know? The misguided character. That's always more interesting to me - especially with a comedy. I've always felt inside more like a character actor.
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Being a Chicano in Hollywood, my experience is that you're not given credit for any sophistication... You're just kind of some guy that just crossed the border, you know, on the back of a truck and that's it.
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Everybody in L.A. has a screenplay. The guy pumping your gas has a screenplay.
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I learned the most important thing is to put yourself in the shoes of the players.
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The point of essays is the point of writing anything. It's not to tell people what they already think or to give them more of what they already believe; it's to challenge people, and it's to suggest alternate ways of thinking about things.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
