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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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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I have this necklace I always wear. I collect pendants from people I love; my best friends and members of my family have all given me one, and I put them on this chain so no matter where I am they're always with me.
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And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.
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I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff.
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It's more common than not that bipolar illness will start in the teens. One of the reasons I spend a lot of time on college campuses is exactly that reason. It's terribly important to talk to students about knowing these things in advance.
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I admire people who are completely at ease with themselves. But I don't have that feeling.
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The time, then, had come for him to poison himself so that an economic monopoly could be kept alive, a sprawling, interplan empire from which he now derived nothing.
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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.
