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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When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.
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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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God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.
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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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I don't mind the audience identifying me with Red.
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What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.
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I think growing up on a farm in a certain amount of isolation, with not a lot of friends nearby, makes you entertain yourself and kind of grows your imagination - being alone is quite good for all that. You make up stories, talk to the animals, let them be an audience, a bunch of cows.
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.
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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.
