Joe Wright Quotes
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I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in public, but I'm not, and I don't think it's that extraordinary.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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I'm a strong fighter, I'm a fighter who can adapt to my surroundings.
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People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
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I mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.
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I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.
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I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.
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Teaching was my first job after leaving university. It was a challenge, but I enjoyed it. Some of the kids were disruptive, but I could deal with it because I was only 24 at the time, and my own school memories were still fresh.
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I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.
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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public.
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So, naturalists observe, a fleaHas smaller fleas that on him prey;And these have smaller still to bite 'em,And so proceed ad infinitum.Thus every poet in his kindIs bit by him that comes behind.
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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
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I regard Jesus, like the Buddha, as a figure with the power to shape our lives.
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I'm more of a handbag girl; my guilty pleasure is bags. I don't even have a clue how many I own.
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Our logo for Lanvin is a mother and a daughter. I've always said, 'It's not a lion, and it's not a horse. It's a mother and a daughter.' I find the logo very emotional.
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It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.
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September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life.
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I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can't make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.
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I love going to the cinema and thinking you're seeing something, and you end up on a whole other planet, and you can't believe it.
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And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.
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I had a breakdown after making 'Atonement.'
