Edgar Wright Quotes
I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.
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One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
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I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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I don't really yell at people.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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I'll pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind 'Cause I made my mind up you're going to be mine.
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I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
