Joe Alwyn Quotes
When your dad comes back from a faraway land with bows and arrows and spears wrapped up in a carpet... that's cool.
Quotes to Explore
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.
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My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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When I am teaching, I first give out Tolstoy's 'Childhood,' his first published book. It is so transparent. It gives you exactly what it was like to be on a Russian estate in 1830. You are there. And that is the hope when you sit down and write still, I think - that you can transmit something of what life is like now.
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Most of my time, energy and other resources I use to nurture my projects.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.
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When your dad comes back from a faraway land with bows and arrows and spears wrapped up in a carpet... that's cool.
