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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You can have old guys who aren't willing to be coached just like you can have young guys who aren't willing to be coached.
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The social aspects of food are really important to me - my favourite food-related memories are meals I've shared with my family and friends. Posting Instagram pictures of your food and then seeing your friends comment on it is just a modern form of that kinship.
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Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope. Some will say that this hope lies in a nation; others in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished, by millions of solitary individuals whose and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history.
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I considered a lot of different jobs as a kid. I thought about becoming a priest or a lawyer. My father had a big linen-supply business and I considered working for him. What dawned on me was: 'If I'm an actor, I get to do the fun parts of every job!' Without having to go to four years of law school.
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The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
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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.
