Edgar Wright Quotes
I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and every break-up was the 'Worst Thing That Had Ever Happened.'
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.
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Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.
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A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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I've grown up with kids watching me and as they're growing up, I'm growing up.
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Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
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I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and every break-up was the 'Worst Thing That Had Ever Happened.'
