Kodi Smit-McPhee Quotes
When I was 8, my dad asked me if I wanted to audition, just for fun. I did just a little short film, and I liked it. I just kept doing it, and then I started getting bigger auditions for bigger roles.
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
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I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
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When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'
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When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
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When I first started submitting my work professionally - and we're talking years and years ago - I had no patience for editorial response times. I hated waiting to hear back from people, hated waiting to see my work in print.
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So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.
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The funniest things are the forbidden.
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I'm excited about Los Angeles because I believe in her. I believe in her destiny. I think that the fact that we have so many different people from so many parts of the world is a big reason why L.A. is the city of America's promise.
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White supremacy is a sin. Neo-Nazism is a sin.
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When I was 8, my dad asked me if I wanted to audition, just for fun. I did just a little short film, and I liked it. I just kept doing it, and then I started getting bigger auditions for bigger roles.
