Joel Edgerton Quotes
As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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When you get older, you have to stay a bit rock n' roll so that young people will still be interested in you. The way you move, the way you talk, maybe the way you have your hair in your face a little bit - this keeps you interesting.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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My family are the epicenter of all my decisions.
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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You need to understand the batsman, where he plays his shot usually, which is his release shot, and then change the angle, vary the pace, line and length. You cannot always react after being at the receiving end.
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Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters.
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My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
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And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
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If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.
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I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be at home with my family.
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My first time to Rome was when I was backpacking with my best friend around Europe for a month at 18 years old, so I remember that excitement of being away from home properly for the first time.
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In the first couple of years when you're transitioning you don't really fit into any gender, because you're changing over. You have to start getting electrolysis before you even start your therapy. But I think all the weird looks help to give you conviction in who you really are.
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I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.
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You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.
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The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
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I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.
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I get scared to death every time I have to play. I always get nervous because you never know what to expect. The crowd could be awful, or it could be amazing. You just never know what you're going to get until you get out there and do it. I just do my best and have fun.
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As an agent, I functioned like a guy. But the fact that I was a woman affected everything.
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I think that it would be good for people to realize and understand that they are doing something to deal with their pain and they aren't really going to be allowed to escape it and outrun it forever without side effects and certain consequences, as far as emotional and mental happiness and their physical condition. And I'd like people to be aware of those things.
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As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.
