Edward Zwick Quotes

When we did 'Thirtysomething,' television was either about doctors, lawyers, or cops.

Edward Zwick

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• A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Strong
  • Economy
  • Plan

• So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Up
  • President
  • Here

• Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Women
  • Say
  • Feminist

• I try not to look any further ahead than the next cup of tea. You never know if that cuppa will come or not, do you?

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Know
  • Try
  • Tea

• If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Comedy

• Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Struggle
  • For Him

• Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professional athlete. I knew when I got to college there was no way anybody was going to stop me from being an NFL player.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • School
  • High
  • Stop

• I feel good when I stir something with a spurtle, but I don't make porridge very much in London.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Good
  • London
  • Feel Good

• I do work on a little bit of weights just to get my power up.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Up
  • Work
  • Power

• I know I got to do something that's one in a million, to escape a refugee camp, to come to this country and have so many doors open for me. So I want to go back and make a difference and give motivation or hope to all the kids that never got to leave or have the privilege that I did.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Country
  • Kids
  • Hope

• As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Fantasy
  • Africa
  • Adolescent

• I don't want to repeat my mistakes.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Want
  • Mistakes
  • Repeat

• I have bizarre anxiety about being in a city - I have no idea who I am or where I am.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • City
  • Anxiety

• Losing a parent is a hard thing... I often sit here and think it would be great if mum and dad were alive and had a chance to see their grandkids grow up.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • Up
  • Great
  • Dad

• Old-school Dire Straits songs are on heavy rotation: 'So Far Away,' 'Romeo and Juliet' and of course 'Sultans of Swing.'

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • School
  • Far Away
  • Romeo And Juliet

• Brain damage ever since the day I was born, drugs is what they used to say I was on. They say I never knew which way I was goin'.

  

  Eminem
  • Brain

• You've got a face for a smile, you know A shame you waste it when you're breaking me slowly.

  

  Demi Lovato
  • Smile

• My dad and his friends wanted to give the children something to look out their windows and see during the holiday season.

  

  Mike Peters Big Country
  • Children
  • Dad
  • Holiday

• I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Eyes

• As a longtime practitioner of yoga and a person who's been involved in physical fitness my whole life, I can tell you, yoga helps you achieve altered states of consciousness. It is not just stretching. The only way you can say that it's stretching is if you haven't done it, or that you haven't done it rigorously for a long period of time.

  

  Joe Rogan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I don't really know why I started playing as a kid, but I grew up in Queens, New York, not too far from Forest Hills, where they played the U.S. Open in those days. I even got to be a ball boy there. Also, there was a tennis court just a block away from our house, and I'd hang out down there.

  

  John McEnroe
  • Up
  • Why
  • House

• After Mitt Romney's defeat, the RNC released its official assessment of what happened - a failure to reach younger voters, nonwhite voters, women - but was met with a counter-narrative that, in fact, it was Romney's failure to be conservative enough that led to a depressed Republican base.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
  • Women
  • Failure

• When we did 'Thirtysomething,' television was either about doctors, lawyers, or cops.

  

  Edward Zwick