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 wouldn't call being a chef gratifying in a lot of ways. It's an act of love.
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'The bread of the stranger is bitter,' says Dante, 'and his staircase hard to climb.' But who can know what the bitterness of dependence is so well as the poor companion of an old lady of quality?
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Ray Johnson was a great innovator of mail art and photocopying and sending people photocopies.
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London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
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I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him to me and to everybody else. So, the search is the same. It's to unveil the truth, and that's how I stay true, because my purpose isn't altered.
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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.
