Edward Zwick Quotes
I tend not to go look at movies before I make a movie. I'd rather not be specifically influenced.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.
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To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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When I was in Norway, we were there for two days, and I didn't sleep one hour there. I stayed up and watched the sunset, then watched it rise again. It was crazy, but I just loved it so much.
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When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.
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Launching a start-up, you need to get a lot done quickly. Every day is different. Everyone pitches in with everything. It's easy for the founding team to say, 'We're flexible. We all help out with everything!' But when it comes to making decisions - that flexibility can spell inefficiency and disaster.
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In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it.
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There is a bearing which comes from having a little bit of something withheld. In acting classes, they always say don't reveal 100 percent: it's much more interesting.
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I tend not to go look at movies before I make a movie. I'd rather not be specifically influenced.
