Ted Kotcheff Quotes
When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.
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It's all about destiny. That's why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching - because there's a certain order to life, and that order has been lived since the beginning of time. No matter what you do, you're going to live inside of it.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.
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Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the island of Martinique, and they hooked up with the Native Americans of Louisiana.
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Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different.
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I don't remember who wins awards [Oscars]. I've won a few but what I really remember are movies. I love films, so I'm not concerned about speculation about winning things because I really enjoy being in films that last longer than an opening weekend. That's my goal in life.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
