Edward Zwick Quotes
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
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'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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We really love to learn and explore things.
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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When you face a 'performance' that might provoke the 'I'm scared' response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It's more fun than 'Dancing with the Stars!'
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We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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I was living with my stepfather for a while, and then I moved out and went and lived on my own in Hastings-by-the-Sea from about 16.
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I would say that normally it is the creative minorities that determine the future, and in this sense, the Catholic Church must understand itself as a creative minority that has a heritage of values that are not things of the past, but a very living and relevant reality.
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The whole intention of empirical economics is to force theory down to Earth.
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You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.
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I've been a professor of mathematics at Harvard and at Yale. At Yale for a long time. But I'm not a mathematician only. I'm a professor of physics, of economics, a long list. Each element of this list is normal. The combination of these elements is very rare at best.
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It's a harder time to make original, less conventional movies. But God, we need them!
