Kodi Smit-McPhee Quotes
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
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I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.
Garry Kasparov -
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.
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A different language is a different vision of life.
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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.
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I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
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I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.
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I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.
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I have no problem with the concept of financial riches, but if you need to change the person you are in order to achieve that, I think you're taking too much of a gamble with your personal happiness.
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I'm always having to check myself and make sure I'm not over singing in some ensemble thing that will render me unavailable for participation in the stuff where it really counts.
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A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.
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The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them.
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The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.
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My favorite genre is comedy.
