"I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student."

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Source : "Leonardo DiCaprio & Ed Zwick for “Blood Diamond”". Interview with Garth Franklin, www.darkhorizons.com. December 7, 2006.

Edward Zwick

#Opportunity Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Privilege Quotes

“I have a personal trainer who comes over at least four times a week and kicks my butt. I get so sore that I can't even walk.”
“Creative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius”
“Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting go. In Buddhism, the impenetrable, separate, and individuated self is more of the problem than the solution.”

Source : "The 'big lesson' Mike Rowe learned several hundred times" by Mike Rowe, www.cnn.com. October 18, 2014.
“We communicated with pithy, rather monosyllabic thoughts: viz. Run, Jump, Where? Left, Up, Duck, ect. (This latter was an observation I made on the edge of a lake. Nathaniel unfortunately took it as a command, which resulted in our temporary immersion.) We didn't ever quite say Ug, but it was a close-run thing.”
“The example my parents set, both in and outside of our household, helped me understand that we all have a specific purpose in life--to give back to society.”
“What is so certain of victory as patience?”

Source : Selma Lagerlöf (1914). “The Story of Gösta Berling”
“Let go of the need to control. Trust in the wisdom of a divine plan.”
“The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.”

Source : "Dana Snyder and Dave Willis on Aqua Teen Hunger Force's limitless potential". Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. November 11, 2009.

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