Joel Edgerton Quotes
I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the scripts I read in my acting life.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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Kabir Khan is a director who goes out of his way to make his actors comfortable. He's very chilled out. He makes the environment on set very casual and friendly.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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Habit is a great deadener.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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George Benson conquered many different genres, from pop ballads to R&B to jazz.
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When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.
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I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the scripts I read in my acting life.
