Edgar Wright Quotes
'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.
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People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their West Coast headquarters is in the Bob Barker building.
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.
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I don't think you can judge something without seeing it.
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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When I’m photographing I see life.
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Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine must have care and its different parts must be adjusted properly. No machine has ever approached the human machine. When it is right, it is in health.
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We still have our people working in the cane fields in the Dominican Republic. People are still repatriated all the time from the Dominican Republic to Haiti. Some tell of being taken off buses because they looked Haitian, and their families have been in the Dominican Republic for generations. Haitian children born in the Dominican Republic still can't go to school and are forced to work in the sugarcane fields.
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
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My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.
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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
