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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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
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When I draw horizontalsyou see this big plane and you have certain feelings likeyou're expanding over the planeAnything can be painted without representation
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'There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in.'
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To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.
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It's just as political, what you do in the bedroom is just as political as what you do in public.
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I had a breakdown after making 'Atonement.'
