Joel Edgerton Quotes
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.
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In the summer of 1988, my father took me up to look at the remains of our home, the dream house that he'd built. It was my first time since our family left four years earlier. Political and obscene graffiti covered the half-torn walls. There was no ceiling and surprisingly no floor: the parquet, the stone, the marble, all looted.
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I get really flowery and verbose in my adult books, but I don't think I dumb down my Y.A. It's just cleaner and more snappy. And the adult books have multiple points-of-view. In my Y.A., it's always third person from the main character's perspective.
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If I were to say you are crazy, what part of that would you find unacceptable?
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Dogs are not people. Be leery of any woman who refers to her dogs as her 'kids,' because you'll only end up paying for their schooling.
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Seeing a live Kenny Chesney show, you know what you're going to get. You know it's going to be an all-day party.
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Saigon is like all the other great modern cities of the world. It's the mess left from people getting rich.
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Only the general manager can mold the resources, processes, and values that affect innovation, into a coherent capability to develop and launch superior new products and services repeatedly.
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In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
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A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a snake.
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I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.
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Talking with my friends and family every day helps keep me grounded and connected to home. They are the most important things to me.
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King-ian nonviolence is a way of thinking and living and is not confined to the work of social and systemic change.
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Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism.
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For me, as an actor, the challenge is mostly before the film starts when you have to get into the psychology of the character.
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I've slipped enough times over the years to know the peril of a too-smooth sole, so every time I buy a new pair, I take a pair of scissors or a piece of sandpaper to the bottoms to roughen them up. In my catwalk days, I even used to spit on the soles of shoes before I ventured down the runway.
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I have an outline but never use a teleprompter. That kills the connection.
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I never really think too much about my voice.
