Kodi Smit-McPhee Quotes
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When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.
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These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.
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My parents landed in Calgary in December 1974, straight from Nairobi. They were immigrants, like many people coming to build a better life. My mom was five months pregnant with me when they landed.
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The 'Dog's Purpose' premise has gotten me so many emails and comments from people who say that their dog is so much like one they had when they were young or years before, that it seems like the truth. The idea that you would come across an old friend later in life.
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When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'
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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
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In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It's your time to gestate in the cocoon of becoming.
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My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.
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Each person's body type is different, and they need to understand that food should be eaten in regular portions.
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Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
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If you want to love your life more, you can begin by living and loving more of it - by zestfully living and loving every teeny-tiny, gorgeously-detailed minutiae moment!
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The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
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I still see life entirely through its Darwinian prism. I keep trying to shake off the aftereffects of writing 'The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead', and I find I can't.
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Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.
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We pledge to fight 'blue-sky thinking wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.
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I think George Mitchell was good for Maryland in the sense that he helped me get elected. It doesn't get any better than that from here on.
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I think everyone has been different once in their life.
