James McAvoy Quotes
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
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I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I believe clothing tell a story.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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Whenever I am asked about my personal relationships, I politely reply, 'No comments.'
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Coming out of Juilliard, I honestly was expecting and willing to be breaking my neck, hustling, and being unemployed for a decade, two decades. I was gritting my teeth, but I was so down to do that.
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Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.
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Every town in America had at least one, two, or maybe three radio stations that played rock 24 hours a day. In England, we had a rock specialist on for two hours a week.
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I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work, so please give us more historicals.'
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I have nothing Of woman in me; now from head to foot I am marble-constant.
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I'd like to have stayed in the Scouts beyond the age of 12.
