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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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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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've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.
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My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.
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I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness.
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Especially in the world of fantasy and superheroes, it's great to have role models that aren't in skimpy little outfits, in impossible poses. That's so important for young women.
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If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them.
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I used to have the Virgin music [stores], and I would go there and just go up the escalator and say to myself, 'I'm soaking in these last moments of anonymity.' I knew I was going to make it this far; I knew that this was going to happen
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I make this really good tomato soup from scratch and I do it with grilled cheese sandwich dippers on the side. That's really, really, really good. And my grandma loves that. My grandma is the best cook ever so for her to love that makes me think it's probably the best thing I make.
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These are special schemes for transferring capital abroad through banks.
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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.
