Edward Zwick Quotes
My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called 'Family.'
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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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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The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
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That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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I did not enter the industry to create a certain image. People happened to see me as the friend/sister/daughter next door. I like that association very much. It's close to what I am in real life. As for films, I just focus on the job.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.
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Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.
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Clearly the success of the Netflix model, releasing the entire season of 'House of Cards' at once, proved one thing: The audience wants the control. They want the freedom. If they want to binge as they've been doing on 'House of Cards' and lots of other shows, we should let them binge.
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I don't have an office. I sit in a cubicle with everybody else. That's partly so no one can ask for an office, which in a fast-growing company isn't practical. But it's also so I can keep my finger on the pulse of how people are feeling.
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'Family Guy' is relentlessly excellent.
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Replacing your family's current health care with government-run health care is not the answer. In fact, it'll make health care much more expensive.
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My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called 'Family.'
