Joel Edgerton Quotes
I've signed four autographs for Sam Worthington in L.A., and I haven't told any of the people that I'm not him.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
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When I was brought up in Sweden, there was a great opportunity for young people to learn how to act in our municipal theaters with their small companies. You would be under contract for eight months and have the summer free to take other opportunities.
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The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.
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My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship.
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I've signed four autographs for Sam Worthington in L.A., and I haven't told any of the people that I'm not him.
