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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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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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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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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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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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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A Texas upbringing - and living now in Brooklyn, too - have surely helped my appreciation for open spaces and skies, but beyond that, it's not easy to find words for what it feels like to be up in the Rockies or out on the Great Basin - such silences and spaces! - or to be heading up into the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
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There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.
