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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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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There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.
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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.
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I don't like to work for politicians because I hate to work on anything that you can't give back if it doesn't work. I sell products. I do a commercial for, say, Meow Mix, and you don't like it, you get your money back. You can return it. Politicians, you can't return. You're with them for four more years. And that's scary.
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Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of things, the past and present somehow coalescing or co-existing.
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A little-recognized value of listening and inquiring relates to the realization that in human relationships, it is frequently not what the I've learned ... that it is best to give advice in only two circumstances: when it is requested and when it is a life-threatening situation.
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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.
