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Edward Zwick Quotes

There's only a certain number of movies I'm going to get made, and it's important to me that they each be original somehow.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: October 8, 1952

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Me Important Movies Be Original Get

That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'

Yourself Wake Up Gift Doing You Up

We need to focus our energies there, not these broad, blanket, kind of statements that will make it harder for us to deal with ISIS. We need to deal with ISIS in the caliphate. We need a strategy to destroy ISIS there. You can't do that without the cooperation of the Muslim world because they're as threatened as we are.

Focus World Strategy You Cooperation

Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.

Steven Spielberg

Technology Hope Story Will Way Film

To work with Miss Oprah has been amazing. To have her in my corner and inspire me and uplift me has been amazing.

Work Amazing Me Inspire Corner Her

The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again.

Dennis C. Blair

Power Balance Revolution Now West

When asked what he was fighting for, General Washington, in writing to General Thomas, said the object was 'neither glory nor extent of territory, but a defense of all that is dear and valuable in life.' He must have been an umpire. That's what umpiring is about.

Life Writing Fighting Glory Said

If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement made demands that altered the course of American lives and backed up those demands with the willingness to give up your life in service of your civil rights, with Black Lives Matter, a more internalized change is being asked for: recognition.

Claudia Rankine

Life Change Service King Black

My sisters were teenagers when I was born, so the last thing they wanted was a little nappy-headed boy running around. I would imitate them or copy things off TV.

Brian Tyree Henry

Born Copy Boy Little Things Off

I think, probably, the place that I feel I most belong is a movie set. It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement. So I guess acting was a way of finding a home, if that makes sense.

Anya Taylor-Joy

Home World Think Finding Acting Way

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

Yourself Me Say Write Email Come

One of the hardest things to do is to be present and open and clear about who you are and what you stand for. We all have issues with that.

Present Stand You Open Things Clear

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

Me Speech Bad Matter What If Right

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