Joel Edgerton Quotes
Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.'
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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Bin Laden had come to the delusional conclusion that the United States was as weak as the Soviet Union had once been.
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When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck, Long Island, you couldn't be a 'real artist', so I found crafty ways of implying that I was from New York.
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If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.
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In the past, I had a knee-jerk approach to work, and it showed on screen. I was doing movies for the wrong reasons - trying to juggle dates, do too many guest appearances, take up projects under pressure or for emotional reasons.
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The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.
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Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.'
