Casey Affleck (Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt) Quotes
What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.
Quotes to Explore
-
While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
-
It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
-
I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.
-
When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
-
We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
-
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
-
Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
-
The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
-
Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio.
-
This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.
-
I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
-
I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.
-
The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
-
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
-
Every adverse development across the world affects the rest of the world in some way.
-
At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won.
-
The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.
-
There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.
-
There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
-
It's funny. You travel all over the world, and you wind up with a guy from your hometown.
-
Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.
-
If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.
-
Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.
-
What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.
