Casey Affleck (Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt) Quotes
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
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I think they could of recast the children, I heard of people wanting to do something like that. That would be a nice little show to do but you know that show was of the 80's, I don't think the audience mind set is in that direction any longer.
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Fun opens the doors to creativity, which then leads to inspiration, which then births passion, which all together equals both happiness and success!
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The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
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'Star Trek' put sci-fi on the map and changed television, and 'Battlestar' has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldn't normally watch sci-fi.
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I think that every male actor fantasizes with a boxing film.
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So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going to tour when we want to, regardless of whether we've got a record out.
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Even today, people tell me that the slapstick humour in 'Friends' is the most viewed comedy track on television. Siddique knows the art of mixing slapstick with genuine humour.
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The status quo - Obamacare - is not acceptable.
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My mother's family didn't speak much about Europe: My mother was born in 1935, and her new-world parents were the sort who didn't want to worry their children about the war.
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
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I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.
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When you first meet someone, it's always about one-upmanship. The couple tries to impress each other.
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Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?
