Joel Edgerton Quotes
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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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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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.
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In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
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I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
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I want to control our own energy by developing oil and natural gas but also the energy sources of the future.
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I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
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Choreography is writing on your feet.
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You have to think of a restaurant as a series of impressions. But what makes my job so great is there's no one answer that's right for every restaurant.
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In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
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I don't call acting a real job, and writing is a hobby.
