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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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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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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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said; a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face.
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I think people get excited about someone discovering something that blew their mind when they were younger. I think it makes people kind of nostalgic and happy. That's one of the really great things about the Internet, that it can bring people together in that way of just being interested in the same stuff.
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I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.
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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.
