James McAvoy Quotes
I don't know why we're not interested in seeing good people. I think we like seeing good people, but only if bad things happen to them. Which is weird, isn't it?
Quotes to Explore
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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I'm a writer, not a genre.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I never really mind what people say about me - I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to being true to myself to let other people's disdain or nastiness upset me for long.
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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
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I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
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I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.
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I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.
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I'm going, going, back, back, to Cali, Cali.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.
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I don't know why we're not interested in seeing good people. I think we like seeing good people, but only if bad things happen to them. Which is weird, isn't it?
