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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'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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Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you can write like you write, then you are true to yourself. And it's not an easy thing to do - it's a disgustingly difficult thing to do.
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Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.
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The feeling of being accepted and acknowledgement and recognition and fame - I'm vain like everybody else. The feeling of achievement that I've helped the poor or somebody in need far outweighs the money.
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Happiness is not in money, but in shopping.
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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.
