Joe Elliott Quotes
They called us 'bludgeon riffola' - it was a complete slag off. So just to show that we didn't really care we picked up on the phrase and used it for the record label.
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Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not been canceled, I never would have gotten 'Serenity'. I think 'Serenity' is the most incredible thing I've ever been able to actually get my hands on and do. I can't even tell you how much love I have for that project.
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I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.
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Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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Care for him who shall have borne the battle.
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They called us 'bludgeon riffola' - it was a complete slag off. So just to show that we didn't really care we picked up on the phrase and used it for the record label.
