Casey Affleck (Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt) Quotes
When people ask me why I don't eat meat or any other animal products, I say, 'Because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry.'
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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But the working I would always want to do.
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OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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All the other characters are so well-rounded, and it's just frustrating because female characters aren't. It's not that they're badly written, they're just underwritten. They have no internal monologues; they could be absolutely anyone.
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Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.
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I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.
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My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born.
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Writing, directing... anything behind the camera is what I want to do.
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I probably can win a prize for the most ways to use a Harvard Law School degree because of all the things I'm doing.
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I know people are going to put the main focus on stopping me, so I need to learn how to make my teammates better by passing and creating opportunities for them.
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I always have ice cream in the house. I have a bowl of it, and then a bit more. One of the greatest pleasures in my life is going back and getting a second half-bowl. The first bowl is just the prelude.
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When I was eleven years old, I basically looked the same as I do now.
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I don't feel like literature has the power to alienate. I think that's something people feel if they don't connect with a work of art. But I don't think a work of art can actively reject the person who's looking at it or reading it.
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I like to go and watch 'Blade Runner,' which made no sense but which I loved going into that world. I think people loved going into the world of 'Dune' with all of its problems.
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You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters.
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I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.
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Willie and Joe are my creatures. Or am I their creature? They are not social reformers. They're much more reactive. They're not social scientists and I'm not a social scientist. We're moral people who do not belong to the moral majority. One of my principles is, Thou shall not bully. The only answer is to muscle the bully. I'm very combative that way.
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I think there's a lot of benefit in letting people vent. When I was on the Manchester Evening News, we got 500 letters a day, and part of my job as editor was to edit them. And I thought that was one of the best things in the newspaper, and it was instituted by an editor known as Big Tom, who said 'this is the voice of the people.' And he was quite right.
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When people ask me why I don't eat meat or any other animal products, I say, 'Because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry.'
