"My passion and energy get mistaken for anger."

Anger, Energy, Passion

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"My passion and energy get mistaken for anger."

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"If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous."

Jeremy Taylor, British Clergyman

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"A moment of anger is a moment of resentment and madness which can burn your heart."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"It is useless to fight fire with fire. When you're offended, it is instinctive to want to fight back in anger."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Anger is the most effective inspiration."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness."

Robin Gibb, English Musician

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"Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old."

Rowan Williams, English Theologian

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"Anger was a weapon to be honed and treasured and used only at the moment yielding most premium."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Anger is the agro-chemical that makes the weeds of failure to germinate and compete with your crops of success. Don't apply it."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"If you are not angry with your average performance, you can't effect a change! You must get upset to grab the energy to break the fence confining you!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one."

Lord Halifax, British Politician

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"Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family."

Family

"I hadn't worked for a couple of years so I thought it would be nice to earn some money and pay the bills."

Money

"I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him."

Father

"Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger."

Anger

"People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk."

People

"If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon."

Life

"It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle."

Film

"Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position."

Film

"How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand."

Movies