James McAvoy Quotes
I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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My three daughters are all going to go to college, and it's not even a question. When I was applying to college, my parents were hoping that I would just go somewhere. Today, they look at their grandkids, and they know those kids will have a chance to build this country in bigger and better ways than my parents ever had a chance.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
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I don't like to play the victim.
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There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here.
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I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.
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I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.
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Real estate deals a lot with the government. It isn't like manufacturing, logistics, home appliances or the auto sector, which deal with consumers.
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'People don't expect to die tomorrow, but they do take out insurance, don't they?'
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If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning.
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That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
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Many people are allergic to process and structure because it causes traumatic flashbacks of working at BigCo and suffering through bureaucracy for bureaucracy's sake.
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I laughed until my fat hurt.
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Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to "learn." What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying "Know thyself."
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But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
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I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.
