Ted Kotcheff Quotes
Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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Dumped? Fired? Scorned? Humiliated? Totally pissed off? If so, I've got great news! You might be on your way to living your best life ever - if you consciously choose to channel this pain into fuel - and use it to motivate yourself to become your highest potential self!
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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I'm usually woken up by the birds and by my schnauzer, Rafa - for me that's the best start to the day. I jump out of bed, throw on some clothes, and race to the polo ground.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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With Facebook, you're not really allowed to be unhappy. Think about it: There's only a like button. Yes, you can be angry, but it's only lighthearted rage. On Reddit, perhaps because you can be anonymous, people are willing to be openly sad or angry. They are more honest.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.
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Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.
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Some things in life need to be mysterious. Sometimes you need to just keep walking. … It’s hard for me to look at a great nation issuing these documents and sending them out to the world and thinking, oh, much good will come of that.
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I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
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Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.
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Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.
