Freddie Highmore Quotes
I always try doing a different character for every film so it's not just changing one.
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Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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My characters hope for better lives.
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I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.
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Very obsessed fans do ask actors to attend their weddings.
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I've played a ghost, cat, snake. I've been funny, sad. I've been filmed flying on screen. So why not spend time on something else? I don't need to accept everything I'm offered.
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Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
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I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.
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I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.
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I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.
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I saw a documentary on the Naadam festival that happens in Mongolia during the summer. One of the features of it is a horse race across the plains that all the young men enter - some as young as 12 years old. It's such a spectacular sight. It's incredible to think that this is a tradition that has been going on for centuries.
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Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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They are so busy knocking that they do not notice that the door is open!
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'Everything is both a trap and a display; the secret reality of the object is what the Other makes of it.'
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I'm very wary of trust, you see.
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All cultures forged by nations—the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and the ancestral wealth of Africa and Oceania—are corroded by the American way of life. In this way, neoliberalism imposes the destruction of nations and groups of nations in order to reconstruct them according to a single model. This is a planetary war, of the worst and cruelest kind, waged against humanity.
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For years, they cast me in these dumb straight roles of businessmen in three-piece suits.
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Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.
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I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked,' it made me feel really cool for being different... and you can carve that in stone!
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I always try doing a different character for every film so it's not just changing one.
