Edward Zwick Quotes
Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction.
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This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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It's different playing in a studio than it is playing live, of course.
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Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more.
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I always felt there was a kind of humanistic impulse in my thinking about film as well as a real interest in its formal and aesthetic properties - just this idea that it can bring you into a very intimate encounter with people.
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My son took many years to learn the simple truth. You cannot love any one person adequately until you have made friends with the rest of the human race also. Adult love demands qualities which cannot be learned living in a vacuum of resentment.
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Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life.
