Kodi Smit-McPhee Quotes
I'm geeky about video games. I don't stay inside a lot and just play them 24/7, but if I had the chance, I probably would.
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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My favourite thing in my wardrobe is my jewelry.
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The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool.
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In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.
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And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.
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Look, I'm in love. I'm very happy.
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Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
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Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.
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It's impossible to be someone you're not, so quit trying. I am as passionate about my hobbies as I am about my work and my family. All three are equally important to me at all times.
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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
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There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.
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The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
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I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.
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At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage.
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The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.
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Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
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You have to have something in your life that's more important than the work. People don't really like to admit that. They say, 'Oh, my work is my most important thing.'
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Political statements are usually more direct, and it works with the upbeat music as well, for some reason, the directness of your statements.
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Civilization begins with distillation.
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A remarkably revealing portrait.
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I'm geeky about video games. I don't stay inside a lot and just play them 24/7, but if I had the chance, I probably would.
