Edgar Wright Quotes
I always liked movies like 'American Graffiti' and 'Gregory's Girl.' 'Gregory's Girl' is particularly perfect because it really captures that summer holiday bubble of teenage utopia. Even though it's got a happy ending, there's a feeling that these characters may never see each other again.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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I love New York. Love it.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'
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I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.
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There's a thing at the Museum of Natural History in New York, where I live: they have a stairwell where you follow the beginning and the course of this planet, and it's a very long stairwell, and you follow, and you follow, and then you reach the top, and we're, like, half a step on the stairwell - the timeline for us on this planet.
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The bedraggled warhorse of American blowhardism.
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Businesses which were slow to recognize the power of the Internet in the mid '90s were quickly left behind. For example, Blockbuster failed to innovate with streaming technology and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2010.
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... While nervous tension may be a component of stress, one can be stressed without feeling tension.
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I always liked movies like 'American Graffiti' and 'Gregory's Girl.' 'Gregory's Girl' is particularly perfect because it really captures that summer holiday bubble of teenage utopia. Even though it's got a happy ending, there's a feeling that these characters may never see each other again.
