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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The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
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I'm not gonna lie, I love Usain Bolt and Serena Williams. What I love about Serena is that she just gets on the floor and she dominates. She handles her business very well, I respect that.
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My strength is to communicate with an audience and to know what jazz singing is capable of.
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It's important to recognize that you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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I'd like to have stayed in the Scouts beyond the age of 12.
