Edward Zwick Quotes
There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
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I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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I'm starting to find my own style.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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The reason why I moved from Young Thug to Jeffery was because I felt like I did a wrong turn.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.
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I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
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Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.
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I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.
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People tend to think that metabolism is genetically predetermined. That you're either cursed or you're blessed. And that's not true.
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Do the work you believe in - if there's an authentic reason for doing it.
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I never really try to watch the movie of the things I've been in.
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There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.
