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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You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
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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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If she had only been able to touch him, they might perhaps have pooled their secrets and discovered the reason for human confusion. But as that wasn't possible, she went outside, into the garden.
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As teachers, we must constantly try to improve schools and we must keep working at changing and experimenting and trying until we have developed ways of reaching every child.
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A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
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Self-made men often worship their creator.
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Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.
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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?
