Kodi Smit-McPhee Quotes
I wasn't bullied or anything, but I was treated differently because I was an actor, and I had big dreams.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
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I was sure I wanted to grow up to be either a veterinarian or a writer. In fact, I worked for a vet during high school, doing everything from cleaning cages to assisting in surgery.
K. A. Applegate
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The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't work, because writers, in order to write good characters, need to understand people. You need to understand your audience. You need to have so much empathy you could almost encourage empathy in others.
Patrick Rothfuss
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I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great – once I could have a giggle, I settled down.
Parminder Nagra
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'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
B. J. Novak
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Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s.
Barack Obama
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'Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.' He laughed. 'But don't let me down and become human yourself. We would lose a wonderful machine.'
Ian Fleming
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I am merely a seeker after knowledge, taking the world for my province, for it seems all knowledge is interrelated, and each science is dependent to some extent on the others. We study the stars that we may know more about our earth, and herbs that we may know medicine better.
Louis L'Amour
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To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Our redneck reputation back then was originally just because we had long hair. Back in the '60s and the early '70s, in the South that was kind of a no-no. At all the Army and Navy bases we'd play, we would get into fights with the soldiers over our hair. But I think our music overshadowed everything else.
Gary Rossington
Lynyrd Skynyrd
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Wildly successful sites such as Flickr, Twitter and Facebook offer genuinely portable social experiences, on and off the desktop. You don't even have to go to Facebook or Twitter to experience Facebook and Twitter content or to share third-party web content with your Twitter and Facebook friends.
Jeffrey Zeldman
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If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
Eric Schmidt
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Speed is one of the great curses of modern civilization, obsession with speed leads to quantitative approach; we come to believe that more is better. This is very materialistic, we have to realize that it is the quality of life, quality of relationships, quality of food, medicine, education and everything else which matters.
Satish Kumar
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I am optimistic about Iraq, I think in five to 10 years we will see it becoming stable.
Jack Straw
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I wasn't bullied or anything, but I was treated differently because I was an actor, and I had big dreams.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
