Edgar Wright Quotes
'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.
Quotes to Explore
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.
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When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.
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I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.
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Now we have new tools for exploring the deep and have to pull together a deep exploration program that takes advantage of them.
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I know I'm as comfortable doing period as I am contemporary. I suppose we grow up with it in a sense, in the theater. We get to put on costumes and play a lot of period dramas or plays so we're exposed to it a little bit more I think because of our theatrical background.
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I enjoy where I am and I don't have a problem with being Steve Buscemi, Stanley Tucci, Don Cheadle, or Jeffrey Wright. They're not the lead of every movie they're in, but every time you see them they're really good.
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'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.
