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.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Best
  • Flower
  • Gardening

• Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Manhood
  • Sensitivity

• The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Tell
  • Early
  • Storytelling

• 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.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Today
  • Like
  • Variety

• Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Want
  • Should
  • Because

• I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Golf
  • Ever
  • Houston

• 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.

  

  Laura Bailey
  • Know
  • Nice
  • Voice

• Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

  

  Harold Taylor
  • Time
  • Important
  • Ahead

• My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Culture
  • Stupid
  • Popular

• 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.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Stupid
  • Blind
  • Terrorism

• 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.

  

  Kaitlin Doubleday
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Life
  • Good
  • Done

• I don't read books.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Books
  • Read

• I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Movie
  • Away
  • Bond

• 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.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Pain
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Women
  • Going
  • Election

• 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.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Real
  • Way
  • Decisions

• 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.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Universe

• To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment.

  

  Alexandra David-Neel
  • Feel
  • Moment
  • Look

• I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.'

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Beauty

• Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Soul
  • Food
  • Luxury

• By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Power
  • Political
  • Military

• There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• 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.

  

  Kodi Smit-McPhee