Edward Zwick Quotes
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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
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Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
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I fell through a stage once. I was doing a truly African dance, and all of a sudden, I hit the ground with my foot and went straight through the stage. I guess they didn't have much money, so the floor was kind of rotting.
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Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
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All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
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Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir mystery. Maybe his Tourette's is a gimmick, but it's a gimmick with depth, with soul.
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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The thing about Wagner is we're always wrong about him, because he always embraces opposites. There are things in his operas which viewed one way are naturalistic, and viewed another way are symbolic, but the problem is you can't represent both views on stage at once.
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Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.
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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
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I don't vote for the guy I trust. I vote for the guy who trusts me the most.
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History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.
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I hope I never get so old I get religious.
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I had always choreographed a little, beginning in high school. And I leaned toward choreography. I always had an overview of what was going on.
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I definitely didn't want to be that person that came out and was like, 'O.K. I'm going to lead every parade.'
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The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
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Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.
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This is our bottom line, and the will of 1.25 billion Chinese people.
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As you get older, you see life is very short, so you have to appreciate more and more and to enjoy it.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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The nature of design is to synthesize disparate perspectives and create a richer end product through collaboration and iteration.
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Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. You know you're going to get it, but it's going to be rough.
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The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.
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Anorexia is pernicious and not something which goes away overnight.
