Edward Zwick Quotes

Every day and every scene, it's never the scene that you expect.

Edward Zwick

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• Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Great
  • Important
  • Done

• I see the demographics increasing, and by that I mean the notion of social acceptance is growing, not decreasing; I think the notion of fiscal responsibility is growing, not decreasing. And Republicans seem to be moving further away from those two categories than closer.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Growing
  • Responsibility
  • Moving

• Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Parents
  • Idea
  • Saying

• Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.

  

  Tan Le
  • Understanding
  • Brain
  • Research

• I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

  

  Orson Welles
  • World
  • Decision
  • Performance

• I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons... Actors have no inhibitions, and I'm inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Fun

• I feel like there's no such thing as gender.

  

  Young Thug
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Gender

• I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Personality
  • Try
  • Cartoon

• I've been sailing from the age of 2, and apparently, when I was 4, I told my dad, 'I know how to do this; you don't have to come with me anymore.'

  

  Nathan Outteridge
  • Know
  • Me
  • Dad

• There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.

  

  Barry White
  • People
  • Music
  • Nice

• I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in a Clinton candidacy or whether she really is something unique and has something to offer apart from her husband.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • She
  • Think
  • Husband

• To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • People
  • World
  • Nice

• My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

  

  Ilie Nastase
  • Good
  • Job
  • Ambition

• I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • People
  • Game
  • Play

• People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.

  

  Dana Hill
  • People
  • Think
  • Rest

• When Hillel died, it was during one of the happiest times of my life. I was married and completely in love and had a baby on the way.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Life
  • Love
  • Baby

• I often say, if I wasn't part of the show I'd be a huge fan of it.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Show
  • Say
  • Often

• A lot of the vibe in London is being sucked dry because of the economic situation. It's very expensive, and it gives you nothing back. New York still feels like there's stuff going on. People are struggling to create art. There's still a vibe.

  

  Finn Jones
  • People
  • Art
  • New York

• I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Feeling
  • Story
  • Start

• In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Children
  • Special
  • Bond

• Today, everybody is more or less conscious of the total failure of the Cuban revolution to produce wealth, to produce a better standard of living for the Cubans. With the exception of small radical parties, Latin Americans know that it's a brutal dictatorship and the longest in Latin American history.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • American
  • History
  • Today

• I mean, every single time I was there with Mahesh, I just tried to learn something of his game, because he's, you know, one of the best doubles players that's been around ever.

  

  Daniela Hantuchova
  • Time
  • Game
  • Single

• Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust; Bear the fruit that bear you must; Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Why
  • Mother
  • Night

• Every day and every scene, it's never the scene that you expect.

  

  Edward Zwick