Edward Zwick Quotes
In the necessary memorialisation of the six million dead, there had been precious little attention paid to those who survived and how they survived.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.
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There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.
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Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!
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I think it’s important to have a good hard failure when you're young. I learned a lot out of that. Because it makes you kind of aware of what can happen to you. Because of it I’ve never had any fear in my whole life when we’ve been near collapse and all of that. I’ve never been afraid. I’ve never had the feeling I couldn’t walk out and get a job doing something.
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A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.
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Now U2's not my favorite band, but I do respect them, and in the same way I respect Bowie: They change without fear of change.
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If people feel like the boss doesn't respect them, they don't stretch for the boss.
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In the necessary memorialisation of the six million dead, there had been precious little attention paid to those who survived and how they survived.
