Joe Wright Quotes
When I left college, I though that I would be immediately embraced by the film world and instead found myself sitting in a squat for three years not knowing what to do with my life.
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We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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I can't play guitar like Pete Townshend. The flip side of that is that Pete Townshend could probably never have played like me.
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I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is around you, you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center.
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Parenting changes your life, it changes how you hear yourself in relationship to others - which is part of the reason that a bunch of people in the rock community are sick of the goodwill and positive energy and love between these 45-year-old musicians who they preferred when they were 25 and taking stabs at each other.
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When I left college, I though that I would be immediately embraced by the film world and instead found myself sitting in a squat for three years not knowing what to do with my life.
