Joel Edgerton Quotes
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.
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I've always said that I'll know when I've gone too far because I won't be able to sit down and watch it with my father.
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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When President Ronald Reagan negotiated some significant arms reduction deals with the then-Soviet Union, he was considered a real hero, someone who was advocating for peace.
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We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.
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The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.
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Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.
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Eventually I want to subsidize my income with other creative outlets that are going to not keep me tied to the road so much.
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My father's a protector. My father's old-school. He's a cowboy.
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You can road-test relationships.
