Casey Affleck (Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt) Quotes

Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there.

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• There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
  • Better
  • Walks
  • Exercises

• I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Cool

• Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Design
  • Ugly
  • Video Games

• New York City has an integration problem.

  

  Laura Moser
  • City
  • Problem
  • New York

• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Couple
  • Years

• The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Life
  • Important
  • Game

• Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Work
  • Family
  • Doing

• Any Southerner is spoiled when it comes to food.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Food
  • Spoiled
  • Southerner

• In high school, I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher asked me to audition for this play, and I got the lead.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • School
  • High
  • College

• On the first day of school, my father told me I'd be the most popular girl and everyone would love me and want to be my friend. It wasn't so, but it gave me an enormous amount of confidence.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • School
  • Girl
  • Friend

• If a warrior is not unattached to life and death, he will be of no use whatsoever. The saying that 'All abilities come from one mind' sounds as though it has to do with sentient matters, but it is in fact a matter of being unattached to life and death. With such non-attachment one can accomplish any feat.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Death

• Sentimus experimurque, nos aeternos esse.

  

  Baruch Spinoza

• I have always said about Tony Benn that he immatures with age.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Age

• All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Good
  • Universe

• The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • True
  • Value
  • Sense

• When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.

  

  Coco Lee
  • Work
  • Done

• We all have an entrepreneur in us; it's just whether we choose the tradeoffs to become one.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Entrepreneur

• It may be said that children are but newly-issued editions of old compositions, re-bound and corrected, with fresh introductions, modern print and headpieces, but the text is that of former editions handed down from generation to generation.

  

  Anna Kingsford
  • Generation
  • Text
  • Editions

• The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Listening
  • Voice
  • Race

• Music is a uniter, so anything that has to do with VIP and ropes and barriers is not my way. Sometimes I have to deal with it, and sometimes I'm put behind those barriers, but I do all I can to bring it down.

  

  Eugene Hutz
  • Music
  • Deal
  • Barriers

• I came from a childhood where I spent a lot of time alone and a lot of time just living with my imagination, and a certain amount of the adult world was kind of alienating.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Time
  • World
  • Alone

• Since I tend to be pretty competitive and find that others on my team enjoy contests and team competitions, I thought a good way to improve feedback would be to create a way to reward the comments and ideas that actually change our company for the better.

  

  John Rampton
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Team

• Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there.

  

  Casey Affleck
  • Book
  • Information