Edward Zwick Quotes
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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I don't have many friends.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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My applications submitted to the Tribunal regarding my interview during the hunger strike were misinterpreted, and it was published in the press that I was going to offer defence, though in reality I was never willing to offer any defence.
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I just want to tell people how I am.
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No time you spend writing will be wasted - even if you write something that's bad.
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The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.
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People tend not to dwell on drama.
