Joe Wright Quotes
I see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can realize their full potential.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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It's a beautiful drive across the United States. It's so interesting. I'm a proud Canadian, and there are so many beautiful parts of Canada, but the United States also has incredible diversity in its landscape.
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You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.
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One of the nice things about books as opposed to television and movies to some extent is it's not a passive entertainment. People really do get involved, and they do create, and they do have their own visions of what different characters look like and what should happen. It's great - it means their brains are working.
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I think it's really important for people to hear what our men and women in the military have to say.
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There's nothing inherently lame about electricity. I've got a basement full of power tools that all operate with electricity, and they're manly items. And when you see a great big locomotive hauling a mile of freight cars, that's a hybrid. A lot of people don't understand that.
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I see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can realize their full potential.
