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 have a great tip - I have a jumping rope in the house, and I just do ten minutes of it whenever I can. You don't need to work out for hours, just ten minutes will do.
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Artists like Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga have more sway over popular minds than a politician.
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'Sunrise Sunset' is about trying to get to a place where life is simple and not letting the stress and happenings in the world get in the way of your happiness.
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I wanted to drop three albums in a year because no one had done it. It was bold, unheard of.
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
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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?
