Chris Wedge Quotes
Someday, I'd like to sit down with a small group of people, in a relaxed environment, and make a film that feels more independent. That way we can be a little more free in terms of storytelling and subject.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
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I love bayou life.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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We just want to win. It doesn't matter how the stats look.
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I'm not a critic, and I never talk about other people's work.
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
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Someday, I'd like to sit down with a small group of people, in a relaxed environment, and make a film that feels more independent. That way we can be a little more free in terms of storytelling and subject.
