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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Our nation is today a powerful nation.
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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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Whenever someone says to me, 'Are you for or against Common Core,' the first question I ask is, 'What do you think Common Core is?' You will get a different answer from every single person. You will literally get a different answer.
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I bequeath the republic to the republicans and not to the monarchists, and the work of social reform to the socialist and not to the middle class.
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The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone, we are told that God hates the sinner, His wrath is on the liar, and so forth. In the Bible, the wrath of God rests both on the sin (Romans 1:18ff) and on the sinner (John 3:36).
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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I'm interested in making films that ask questions and don't particularly provide answers.
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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.
