Joel Edgerton Quotes
There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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I would love to work with the great movie actors of our time.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
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Coal mining is an industry rife with mismanagement, corruption, greed and an almost blatant disregard for the safety, health and quality of life of its work force. Everyone knows this. Everyone has always known it.
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I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.
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I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.
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Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling – I can so well remember it. There was always something more – behind and beyond everything – to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.
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I like to control my own personal life.
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I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century.
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Astronomers have been bewildered by the theory of an expanding universe, but there is no less expansion in the moral infinite of the universe of man. As far as the frontiers of science are pushed back, over the extended arc of these frontiers one will hear the poet's hounds on the chase.
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Of course, it's a dream to go to Mars. I want to find out whether there was life there or not. And if there was, then why did it die out? What sort of catastrophe happened?
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I come from the bottom of the ladder. I'm from Norwich. Not many people seem to know about it.
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A dry stretch of commentary in the middle of an 'Anchorman' movie would have been a terrible thing.
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There's no sense in doing something, especially if it's a hard job, if you can't have a little fun.
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If I had to control what I was speaking, it would be a chore. Right now I just feel I've got my shoes off, everybody comes in, I talk. If I was an actor it could be a problem, but right now I just talk all the crap, I can badmouth anybody I want, I can say what I want and move on.
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I'm a terrible cook, but I make very good lobster salad.
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I believe that a government has only one religion - India first. A government has only one holy book - our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion - towards nation.
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I'm just living my life.
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Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
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No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.
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And yet, strange to say, now that this truth is recognized by most cultivated people — now that the beneficent working of the survival of the fittest has been so impressed on them that, much more than people in past times, they might be expected to hesitate before neutralizing its action — now more than ever before in the history of the world, are they doing all they can to further survival of the unfittest!
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I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the news. The punchline comes to me, and I go over it in my head and get the song form. I hadn't been doing that a lot.
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There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.
