James McAvoy Quotes
I've never worked as hard as when I was at drama school. It's the most professional environment I've ever been in.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.
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I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.
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San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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I was known for singing romantic songs to women, but I can also be that guy talking about why you can't be the only girl for me.
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My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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A broad base of knowledge is critically important to our ability to investigate terrorism.
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President Clinton will, I think, lift everyone's spirit. He was a good president, an economic, balanced budget president. And President Obama, I believe, has been a very good president, too, and we will get reelected. You watch.
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For I mean to roam and think and make great irons red-hot.
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Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user.
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I've never worked as hard as when I was at drama school. It's the most professional environment I've ever been in.
