Kodi Smit-McPhee Quotes
My dad teaches me. He teaches me everything. He's been acting for over 30 years, so he knows a lot.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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There's nothing fun about 30 people standing around watching you, like, pretend to pleasure someone. Nothing enjoyable about it, believe me.
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.
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Saying that you are advocating on behalf of small business does not grant a license to spend at will on more and more programs without congressional input, oversight, or statutory authority.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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They say the day you lose your parents, you start to look like them.
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Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.
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My dream is to one day own a country house on the shore in England, have gotten married, wipe some debt off and get a few more good films.
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Acquire knowledge before you become leaders and pride prevents you from learning and you live in ignorance.
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My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.
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I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.
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To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.
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My dad teaches me. He teaches me everything. He's been acting for over 30 years, so he knows a lot.
