James McAvoy Quotes
Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.
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The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.
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When I looked at the skeleton of 'Damn Yankees,' I saw an indestructible story, absolutely original characters, one of the freshest, sassiest American scores of the century, and some outmoded equipment.
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It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?
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Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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In many ways, education is a lousy business. Teachers are not normal economic actors; almost all of them work for less money than they might fetch in some other industry, given their skills and advanced degrees.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.
