Kodi Smit-McPhee Quotes
I think indie films have more of a fresh, experimental vibe about them, whereas studio films know what they want and can basically get it.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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Today, the scope for variety has shrunk drastically. There are only a handful of topnotch composers like A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit... that's it.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since.
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It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
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At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.
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My favorite thing about this business is you're just jammed in a room on a set with like-minded people - writers, directors, and art designers and hairdressers. People who didn't work a 9-to-5 but chose this life. You're going to like at least two or three people in that you love these people so much.
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I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.
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I don't read books.
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I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie.
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I almost never cry, and it's something I don't like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I'm in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it so much easier.
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If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
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My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to evolve out of cabinet discussions. That way, we achieved real co-ownership of our policies.
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Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.
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I wouldn't call myself a brawler.
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If you want the (final bill) to succeed, you better keep ANWR out.
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It's about really having a God connection: a connection with the divine behind the world and flowing forth out of that in a positive way with love and moving toward making a contribution that pushes forth the evolution of the world.
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People, when they buy a hat, they can't explain why they want to buy it or why they want it, but they do. It's like chocolate.
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The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory government agencies get to pocket the proceeds from property they seize from Americans without even charging them with, let alone convicting them of, crimes. Criminals are treated better than this because they lose the fruits of their criminality only after being convicted.
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I think indie films have more of a fresh, experimental vibe about them, whereas studio films know what they want and can basically get it.
