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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My first conscious thought of 'I should be like that and not like this' was probably at about six, and I was playing with... I have a twin brother, and we were playing with our twin cousins, who are a boy and a girl.
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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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If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.
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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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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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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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Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short... was she happy? Not for a moment.
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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When I decided to leave the military, I realized that the skills I acquired there were transferable to the commercial world both in leadership and the information technology field. I made the decision to move to Oracle because of its strong leadership role.
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The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers.
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It started twelve and went on until twelve. I never had to buy a drink all day!
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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.
