James McAvoy Quotes
Film sets are a strange place, but an exciting place. I do love my work; I really enjoy going to work. But if you just spend all your time on film sets or even on stage, you can become a Michael Jackson figure, living in your own little universe.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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I don't have many friends.
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I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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No granite is so hard as hatred and no clay so cold as cruelty.
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Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bubble aspect of closing people in and seeing what they do.
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When it happened to us and it was all gone overnight, we said, 'We are in this together, we are healthy, our children are healthy and we can work'.
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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Film sets are a strange place, but an exciting place. I do love my work; I really enjoy going to work. But if you just spend all your time on film sets or even on stage, you can become a Michael Jackson figure, living in your own little universe.
