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've been hyper-conscious about staying away from rubbish. I don't eat white bread, white rice or cereal unless it's porridge.

  

  Fleur East
  • White
  • Bread
  • Rubbish

• I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.

  

  T.I.
  • Me
  • Doubt
  • Exist

• You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Character
  • Guy
  • You

• Being on 'The Following' is constantly flying by the seat of my pants. The story can change and the character can change at a moment's notice.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Character
  • Change
  • Moment

• 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
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• 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
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• 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
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Surprised

• '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
  • Real
  • Comedy
  • Air

• Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Love
  • Young
  • For Her

• When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Real
  • Power
  • Body

• 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
  • Social
  • Economic
  • Policy

• '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

• 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
  • World
  • May
  • Science

• 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
  • Truth
  • Path

• 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
  • Music
  • Long
  • Hair

• 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
  • Experience
  • Friends
  • Party

• As a co-writer of the Mumford's songs, I'm always quite insecure about the music - I find it hard to accept any praise or feedback.

  

  Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons
  • Music

• Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.

  

  Mason Cooley

• I like to have a sense of accomplishment through work. I'm busy golfing and attending activities, but I think of holding a meeting as playing golf. I think my approach is very good. I don't feel I lose a lot of fun things in life even though I am busy all day.

  

  Liang Wengen
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Woman
  • Dwelling
  • Despotic

• Being a vegetarian Buddhist would be a bit harsh to deal with in the kitchen, so I'm a Taoist, I study martial arts, and I don't drink or smoke.

  

  Arthur Potts Dawson
  • Study
  • Kitchen

• The chili-rubbed rib-eye at Porter House New York is one of the best steaks that I've eaten anywhere in the world.

  

  Martin Bashir
  • World
  • House

• You will ride the Tao toward the concrescence and will be able to live in the light of its anticipation.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Light
  • Able
  • Anticipation

• I wasn't bullied or anything, but I was treated differently because I was an actor, and I had big dreams.

  

  Kodi Smit-McPhee