Edward Zwick Quotes
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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Everyone should be good at what they do.
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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
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People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!
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When I see everyone rushing in one direction, I know it's time to move the other way.
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I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.
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The thing I wonder about is where does Brian's creative spark come from? Not his subjects or anything, but his spark. What makes it so great for me is that I really don't know. There's a mystery behind Brian, even to me.
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I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.
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There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.
