Kodi Smit-McPhee Quotes
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.
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I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill gangster film; it was a love story.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do!
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I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.
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I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing.
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The days of the 'intuitive' manager are numbered.
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I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.
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At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid.
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I like animation: you can go to work in your pyjamas.
