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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It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.
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Rooting for the Cubs is not easy, but the best things in life never are.
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Honor?” “Yes.” “I’m going to do things to you now that a good girl definitely shouldn’t let a man do to her.
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Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have.
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Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
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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.
