James McAvoy Quotes
Since my worldview has expanded, I don't consider myself working class anymore, and I'm attracted to playing characters who go through a similar evolution.
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By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
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I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.
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This is not a political issue. I know Florida's leadership has talked about a real commitment to helping our veterans. Now it's time for them to show it.
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
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The two things that I require for anyone who's around me: you need to love food, and you need to be able to laugh.
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Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
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Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.
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I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile.
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I enjoy the hunt much more than the 'good life' after the victory.
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Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.
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I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.
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The doctrine of the Second Coming has failed, so far as we are concerned, if it does not make us realize that at every moment of every year in our lives Donne's question 'What if this present were the world's last night?' is equally relevant.
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Abysmal instruments make sounds like pips Of the sweeping meanings that we add to them.
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I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.
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Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.
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I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or chronological at all, even with the short story. I will just be writing bits and pieces, and then when I have all the pieces on the table, that for me is when it feels like the real work begins.
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If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be.
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Since my worldview has expanded, I don't consider myself working class anymore, and I'm attracted to playing characters who go through a similar evolution.
