Edward Zwick Quotes
When you're in a fight, and you get hit, it hurts. And as you get older, you begin to take on the aches and the bruises of doing that.
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I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.
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When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.
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Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
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There is no such thing as emotional incompatibility. There are only misunderstandings and mistakes which can easily be set right if we have the will to do so.
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But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
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I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie theater loudly, people being rude, people making noise when you're supposed to be asleep, like drilling noises outside. I could be here all day.
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Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'
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A Grammy is really nice, but having lots of fans is really nice, too. I think just getting a record out is a success on its own.
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I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
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Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.
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I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.
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We are not giving up on the Coyotes in the Greater Phoenix Area... The team has got a number of options and is going to pursue them, so nobody should think that team is moving other than out of Glendale.
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Guarded with ships, and all our sea our own.
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I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
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Writing a song is a long road. Or it can be.
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Uncovering that behaviour was a very dark moment. Determining what to do about it was easy. In life and business, when things go wrong, I believe that you have to accept responsibility and take the next step. When you falter, you need to face forward
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You know you're a bigot when you can't take out the word 'Muslim' from a sentence you stated and replace it with 'Jew' and still have it be socially acceptable.
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The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.
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When you're in a fight, and you get hit, it hurts. And as you get older, you begin to take on the aches and the bruises of doing that.
