Edward Zwick Quotes
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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I can always go back to education.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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I never thought of being disadvantaged.
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In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.
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My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
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Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.
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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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The petty logic of political parties cannot be allowed to stifle the French people's legitimate aspirations to safety and liberty.
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It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.
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Perhaps the rebuilding of the body and spirit is the greatest service derivable from our forests, for what worth are material things if we lose the character and quality of people that are the soul of America?
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Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
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Forgive me, but what is the purpose of drama but catharsis?
