Edgar Wright Quotes
I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.
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I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'
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If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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Fly-fishing is really addictive.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
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My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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You aren't going to leave me alone are you?
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
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True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.
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I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
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'No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I’m not telling you to seek out other writers but to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm'.
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Going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.
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Fight scenes are hard, no matter what you do. You're trying to make it look like you're hurting someone without hurting them. It doesn't matter how big and strong the guy is that you're fighting or how small and feeble someone is that you're fighting. You don't want to hurt them. You're working with them.
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I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.
