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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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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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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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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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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Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
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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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Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
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I don't think there's any show comparable to 'Game of Thrones' in terms of the way it does the fantasy element to such a high standard: everything is created with so much care and detail. You really feel like you are transported into this entirely other fictional place.
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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
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At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.
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I'm really interested in experimental works, so the people that I admired the most was Dziga Vertov, Sergey Eisenstein, people from the '20s. Also, I loved John Ford and his westerns. The New Wave was not tender to women.
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Israel never meant to take over the West Bank and Gaza - it got stuck with them after the 1967 war.
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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.
