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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The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.
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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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My name is not 'William Shatner.'
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You think you have some stable talent that will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will. Gradually, gradually you gain that confidence.
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I love Madrid.
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I'm sorry I'm crying again on national television. Thank you so much, you have no idea what this means to me.
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I had a breakdown after making 'Atonement.'
