Joel Edgerton Quotes
Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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There is a daily discussion with our servants about the price of food and the number of loaves: a conference with our presbyters to consider the sins of our people is a very rare occurrence.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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Creativity is the key for any child with dyslexia - or for anyone, for that matter. Then you can think outside of the box. Teach them anything is attainable. Let them run with what you see is whatever they need to run with.
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Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. 'Use' is a dirty word only when there's an imbalance in the relationship.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal.
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As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.
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The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.
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I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
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In my short acting career, I've been in incredible relationships with incredible women.
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The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.
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I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all.
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Comedies don't get nominated for Oscars. It doesn't happen. So when we set out to do a movie, it's not what we're thinking about.
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I don't know why, but I'm continually amazed to think that two and a half billion of us around the world are connected to each other through the Internet and that at any point in time more than 30 percent of the world's population can go online to learn, to create and to share.
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Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.
