Joe Wright Quotes
Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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I'm a wuss - a complete wuss!
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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I am a shy person, basically. I don't think I can take my shirt off in front of so many people. I never thought about it. No one asked me to. But I don't even know if people like it if they see me without a shirt all of a sudden. But let's see, if a film demands it, I might just do it.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
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When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
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I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
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I think younger readers connect so readily to animal characters because they share a certain vulnerability, particularly when it comes to adult humans, who can be a rather unpredictable lot.
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I've been building a future for myself outside of acting.
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One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
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There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.
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Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.
