Joel Edgerton Quotes
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My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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I wanted to just come out and continue to improve my game, continue to improve my mental capacity to play well in tournaments. I've had a slow year compared to last year, but I've been pleased because I felt like I was getting better.
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The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
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In my district, I know we have thousands of little creeks and streams, some of which only fill up when it rains. Nationwide, they're in the tens of thousands.
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I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.
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Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.
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For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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'They wanted to come in after the pounds', explained Pooh, 'so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come'.
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Practice humility at first with man and only then before God. He who despises man, has also no respect for God.
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Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.
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'There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.'
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Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is.
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The 'Terror' of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.
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One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have.
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Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.
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All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
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Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.
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The only way for you to show what you can do is to actually do.
