Edgar Wright Quotes

'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.

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• I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Love
  • Strong

• Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Pain
  • Risk

• In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • You
  • Me
  • Never

• It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Time
  • Story
  • Same

• In America, people buy cars, and they put very little money down. They get a car, and they go to work. The work pays them a salary; the salary allows them to pay for the car over time. The car pays for itself.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• If I go into a restaurant there's a very good chance that I'm going to spend my time being the mayor. If I want to have a good time, I'm happier having dinner here.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Chance

• The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• The future is keeping you out of the present time.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Time
  • Future
  • Present

• If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn't have expected to be shot.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Teenager
  • Street
  • Shot

• I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Love

• The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • Time
  • Play
  • Wanted

• The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Man
  • Courage
  • Successful

• If I really had to pinpoint my happiest days out of the United States, I'd choose those Fifties military days in Britain, particularly my time in South Ruislip. I had a ball.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Time
  • Military
  • Choose

• Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• If a little black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, or some far-reaching region sees something that I do and aspires to do it one day with the knowledge that she can achieve it, then hey, my work is done.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Work
  • Done
  • She

• I'm just trying to really take it one day at a time, because for me - and I know this sounds cliche, whatever - I achieved my ultimate goal, and nothing can really top that, you know?

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Day

• I think one of the reasons 'Gremlins' lasts and some other films don't is because I don't think the movie has a whole lot of dated things - sure, the cars, my hair, and few things here and there that date the movie - but it takes place in a sort of everytown, in a sorta non-specific time, and that gives the movie a timeless quality.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Quality

• The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Time
  • Marriage
  • Period

• On 3 things in his bucket list: On my bucket list... Uhm, the question is totally catching me by surprise. Some more travel, spending quality time with my family and just getting the most I can out of my wife and daughter.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Time
  • Family
  • Mother

• A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

• The physical world is not going away, just items take on different meaning. Paper takes on this archival, very important meaning now that it's not the only way to communicate something.

  

  Alexa Hirschfeld
  • World
  • Different
  • Important

• After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Life
  • Wonder
  • Root

• Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes or writing them down in my journal - for fear that I will forget. It's not unlike being on a trip and taking pictures, your face behind a camera the whole time - the entire experience mediated by a lens.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Experience

• 'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Successful