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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It's not a case of 'look at me in my car'; it's more, 'look at the car'. I like the idea of other people enjoying them, because everything has become a bit faceless and nobody likes the motor car any more.
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I'm an angel compared to some of my friends.
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If the IMF is correct (a big if), China will be the planet's No.1 economy by 2016. That means whoever's elected in November next year will be the last president of the United States to preside over the world's dominant economic power.
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When I was coming up, everybody wanted to be Tom Hanks. There was always Robert De Niro and Al Pacino - they were the heavily dramatic stuff. I always had a foot in both camps. The hardest thing was to resist the advice to be like someone else. It took me a while to figure that out.
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For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.
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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.
