James McAvoy Quotes
When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
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When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
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My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
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Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.
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We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
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The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.
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I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understanding of what dialogue's easy to say and hard to say - I think that that's helpful, too.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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I never go wild with nails.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.
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It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.
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I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.
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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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If you don't look good, we don't look good.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.
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In 'Taxi,' I kept doing the same scene for three years. I was underused.
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It's a joy to work where I live, and come home and sleep in my own bed.
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Everyone in the astronaut program has a degree in a science field. The crew are the ones who do the experiments, help to design some of the experiments that come from other primary researchers. So it becomes very important that you have a science background.
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When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.
