Joe Wright Quotes
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.
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Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
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There are people with vested interest who do not want us to reform our energy sector so that we remain dependent on imports. All reform moves are resisted. Bureaucrats are hesitant to take bold decisions.
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Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.
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I'm a big believer in the transformative, exponential power of art, like a reverse pyramid scheme.
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There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art.
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If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.
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Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
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To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.
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I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.
