Joel Edgerton Quotes
I don't want at the end of my life to look back at just a bunch of fictional movies I was involved in that kept taking me away from the real world.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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Lies! All lies! You're all lying against my boys!
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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With 'That Awkward Moment', you could argue I'm just playing the girlfriend of Zac Efron, but the director was such a creative force and let me make her my own. I loved being part of something that felt so relevant and fresh.
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It was as easy to be alone with six kin as it is to be alone by yourself, and maybe easier.
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Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race.
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I don't want at the end of my life to look back at just a bunch of fictional movies I was involved in that kept taking me away from the real world.
