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

• That's not to say that I'm a well-informed Catholic. I'm still in idiot.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Catholic
  • Stills
  • Wells

• When I buy clothes, I like to buy them in outfits so I know they go together. I like a very simple, natural style. I never like to be the attention getter; I like to come under the radar and be cool about my look, very classic and stylish. I'm not into fads.

  

  Rena Sofer
  • Attention
  • Simple
  • Cool

• I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Comedy
  • Air
  • Difference

• In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.

  

  Breyten Breytenbach
  • Reality

• Not applying a religious test for public office means that people of all faiths are allowed to run - not that views about God, creation, and the moral order are inadmissible for political debate.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • People
  • God
  • Political

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

  

  Edward Zwick