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 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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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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Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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He who does not punish evil commands that it be done.
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I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be out of it. Nobody could then 'smile darkly and ignore the howls.' Even if there were no Church to teach me this, writing two novels would do it. I think the more you write, the less inclined you will be to rely on theories like determinism. Mystery isn't something that is gradually evaporating. It grows along with knowledge.
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So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.
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To beguile is to deceive or lead astray, as Lucifer beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden.
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I love the Upper West Side. I walk down the street all the time and am stopped by Democrats. I don't think they've ever actually met a Republican before.
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It's a harder time to make original, less conventional movies. But God, we need them!
