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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It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.
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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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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
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I would advise any 17-year-old to surround yourself with people who listen to you, nod when you speak, and smile when you enter spaces.
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I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.
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I had this belief that I couldn't just accept to be treated as an object. It was a problem of dignity.
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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?
