James McAvoy Quotes
I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.
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No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.
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I have enough attention already. More, I don't really need.
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I was a very independent teenager.
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I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.
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I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!
