Edgar Wright Quotes
When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.
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You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
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The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't.
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It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year.
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There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception but a routine one; women would take it once a month to induce a period and never even know whether they had gotten pregnant.
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One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.
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In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.
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When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
