Ted Kotcheff Quotes
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When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped into nightlife; all I knew was dancers. We went to bed early and got up early and went to free concerts at the Lincoln Center and Shakespeare in the Park.
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Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.
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I like things simple.
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The real bombs are my books, not me.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
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You're fourteen years old. You've only had that hair for fourteen years and you want to change it already! How bored are you going to be with it by the time you are thirty? What color will you be up to by then?
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People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
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I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.
