Joel Edgerton Quotes
You have to stick to what you love and purse that at all costs. Don't choose money first; it won't make you happy.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.
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I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.
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Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
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I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
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If you put too much pressure on the Palestinian Authority, it will collapse - it will disappear - and Israel will have to formally re-occupy the West Bank and assume responsibility for the Palestinians there. The United States doesn't want that. Israel doesn't really want that.
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I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.
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Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons - for money, or for fame.
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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
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Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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You have to stick to what you love and purse that at all costs. Don't choose money first; it won't make you happy.
